Closing logomachy: both sides agree living faith includes trust and love
Much of the fiducia/love fight is verbal: Reformed mean living faith as distinct from historic when they number trust and love among faith acts.
Rome denies those as acts of absolute faith common to dead and living, yet grants that living faith as such includes trust and love as its acts — so the Roman comparison block closes in shared substance.
Latin
LXXI. Unde patet hic quoque multum esse logomachiae & verbalis contentionis. Nam dum Reformati plerique Theologi fiduciam & amorem ad fidem pertinere dicunt, & inter ejus actus numerari debere affirmant, fidem ut vivam considerant, & prout a fide mortua seu historica distinguitur: & asserunt fiduciam & dilectionem esse fidei actus, quoniam amor & fiducia, quae a fide viva separari non possunt, fidem vivam a mortua discriminant. Caeteroqui non negant, si quis in communi fidem definiat, & per illa tantum quae fidei tam mortuae, quam vivae competunt, hoc respectu nec amorem, nec fiduciam esse fidei partem, nec ejus ingredi definitionem. Et vice versa, dum Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae negant amorem atque fiduciam esse fidei actus, & fidem per amorem aut fiduciam esse definiendam, fidem ut saepius dictum est, considerant secundum id quod commune habet fidei tam mortuae, quam vivae. Si quis vero fidem vivam ut talem consideret, minime diffiteantur fiduciam & dilectionem ea includi, & tanquam actus ejus considerari posse.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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