What faith justifies: bare assent can exist without obedience
Scripture sometimes calls 'faith' bare assent without obedience.
John 12:42 leaders and Simon Magus believed yet stayed unconfessing or corrupt.
Latin
II. Ante omnia vero scire oportet quae sit illa fides quae justificare dicitur. Ad cujus rei intelligentiam, notandum est in Scriptura sacra quandoque dici credere, & fidem habere, illos ipsos qui Verbo Dei qualemcunque assensum praebent, & de veritate doctrinae coelestis convicti & persuasi sunt; etiamsi praeceptis ejus non obtemperent, nec vitam suam ei studeant conformare. Sic apud Joannem cap. 12. v. 42. multi ex prioribus Judaeorum dicuntur in Christum credidisse, qui tamen Christum non confitebantur, propter metum Judaeorum, & quia, ut notat Joannes, gloriam hominum magis quam gloriam Dei diligebant. Et ita quoque Simon Magus, praedicante Philippo, credidisse narratur, & ad signa & virtutes magnas quae ab eodem Philippo edebantur, obstupuisse, Act. 8. v. 13. Et tamen hoc ipso tempore, Cor ejus, arguente Petro, non erat rectum in conspectu Dei, & ipse in felle amaritudinis & iniquitatis nexu positus erat, ut videre est ejusdem capitis commate 21. & 23.
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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