Theological Theses · §898

All grant will-fruits; Amyraut denies will-command needed for assent

Reformed agree faith's fruits touch the will; they quarrel whether assent is will-commanded.

Amyraut: faith follows Spirit-disposed intellect like sensation follows a fit organ — no will-imperium needed.

Latin

VII. Caeterum fidem salvificam ad voluntatem pertinere ratione multorum actuum & fructuum fidei annexorum, & eam concomitantium, nemo est inter Doctores Reformatos qui dubitet. An autem assensus ille quem Verbo Dei praebemus, ratione originis ad voluntatem pertineat, & censeri debeat a voluntate imperatus, inter eos omnes non habetur pro comperto. Saltem Moses Amyraldus istud non videtur fuisse concessurus. Nam Thesibus de Causa Fidei docet fidem necessario oriri & produci ex appulsu objecti, id est, doctrinae Evangelicae, ad intellectum rite affectum atque dispositum per immediatam Spiritus Sancti operationem: quemadmodum sensatio necessario sequitur ad praesentiam objecti sensibilis, si sensus organum naturae convenienter se habeat. Unde sequitur ad fidei actum a mente eliciendum nullum voluntatis imperium requiri.

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

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