Dead vs living faith: believe God vs believe in God (Augustine)
Speculative assent ('believe God') is dead; practical trust-love ('believe in God') lives.
Augustine: believing in God is loving and joining his members; James: faith without works is dead.
Latin
IV. Itaque prior illa fides in multis impiis & hypocritis reperitur: posterior duntaxat in vere piis & bonis. Prior assensus est mere speculativus, qui in intellectu theoretico haeret. Posterior est assensus practicus, qui affectum movet, & voluntatem afficit. Quocirca prioris actum Scholae exprimunt per credere Deo, quod significat simpliciter Deo loquenti assentiri: posterioris per credere in Deum, quod cum assensu fiduciam in Deum, & Dei amorem includit; juxta illud Augustini, Quid est credere in Deum? credendo amare, credendo diligere, credendo in eum ire, & ejus membris incorporari: Proinde prior illa fides mortua & otiosa est. Sicut enim corpus sine Spiritu mortuum est, ita & fides sine operibus mortua est, ut testatur Jacobus epistolae cap. 2. altera vero viva est, & per charitatem operans, totamque quam Christus a nobis exigit, obedientiam secum trahit.
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.