Theological Theses · §914

Living faith as aggregate: includes love, desire, trust — will also subject (Galatians 5:6)

Usually 'faith' names an aggregate: assent plus love, desire of grace, and resting trust.

That living/saving/formed faith (faith working through love, Galatians 5:6) has will as subject too.

Latin

XXIII. Sed ut plurimum fidei nomine, tum in Scriptura, tum apud scriptores Ecclesiasticos, designatur aggregatum quoddam pluribus actibus vel habitibus constans, & quod praeter jam dictum assensum, includit synceram Dei dilectionem, & ardens gratiae ejus desiderium, ac fiduciam qua ad Deum confugimus, & in favore ejus acquiescimus. Et haec est quam fidem vivam, salvificam & justificantem, solemus appellare, & quae a Paulo dicitur fides per dilectionem operans, quamque Schola Romana fidem formatam vocat. Fidei autem sic acceptae subjectum non est sola mens, sed etiam voluntas, cujus actus est Dei amor, & desiderium gratiae divinae, ac fiducia qua Deo innitimur & illi adhaeremus.

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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