Theological Theses · §978

Usually 'faith' means living assent that bears love, trust, obedience

Usually 'faith' means assent that yields love, trust, and obedience.

Only that faith is tied to salvation, adoption, and victory—not bare belief.

Latin

III. Sed tamen Scriptura plerumque fidei nomine designat, non assensum quemlibet qui doctrinae a Deo revelatae praebetur, sed illum solum qui hominem sic movet & afficit, ut inde nascatur amor, & fiducia in Deum, & debita praeceptis illius obedientia. Haec est illa fides quam divinae litterae tantopere laudant & commendant: cui victoriam de mundo tribuunt; & cum qua salutem, vitam, & adoptionem individuo nexu cohaerere testantur. Ut quum dicit Joannes, Omnis qui credit Jesum esse Christum ex Deo natus est, & haec est victoria quae vincit mundum, fides nostra, 1 Joh. 5. v. 1. & 6. Et Christus ipse, Deus ita dilexit mundum, ut Filium suum unigenitum daret, ut omnis qui credit in eum non pereat, sed habeat vitam aeternam. Joann. 3. v. 16. Item, Haec est voluntas ejus qui misit me, ut omnis qui videt Filium, & credit in eum, habeat vitam aeternam; & ego suscitabo eum ultimo die. Joann. 6. v. 40. Etenim non omnes qui quomodocunque Christo, & verbis ejus credunt, vitam habent aeternam, & adoptantur a Deo in filios, & victoriam de mundo reportant, sed illi soli qui debitam ex fide obedientiam Deo praestant, & fidem habent in bonis operibus efficacem.

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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