Thomas and Sylvester: believe with the heart = by will (Romans 10:10)
Thomas on Romans 10:10: believing with the heart = by the will; one can do outward cult unwilling, but not believe.
Sylvester: heart-belief excludes fiction and marks will-commanded saving faith vs coerced demonic/sign-faith (Romans 10:10).
Latin
XXVI. Quibus conformia sunt quae scribit Thomas Aquinas in illa verba Pauli, Corde enim creditur ad justitiam. Corde creditur, inquit, id est, voluntate. Nam caetera quae ad exteriorem Dei cultum pertinent, potest homo nolens; sed credere non potest, nisi volens. Intellectus enim credentis non determinatur ad assentiendum veritati, ex necessitate rationis, sicut intellectus scientis, sed ex voluntate. Et in eadem verba Sylvester: Ait corde credere, ad excludendam fictionem, cum qua multi accedunt ad Baptismum, & ad indicandum quod fides conferens justitiam a voluntate imperatur, ad differentiam fidei coactae, qualis est in daemonibus, & erat in illis qui crediderunt in eum a signis coacti, ipse autem Christus non credebat semetipsum eis. Nam haec fides justitiam non affert: nam ut scientia virtute rationis demonstrantis gignitur, ita fides non demonstratur, sed virtute suscipitur voluntatis captivantis intellectum in obsequium Christi, qui illam infundit.
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.