Some: faith only senses a justification already done before belief
Some say faith only senses a justification already done—eternal or at the promise of Christ.
On that view faith's only role is to make us know and feel secure about it.
Latin
IX. Quidam enim volunt fidem proprie non justificare, & justificationem fidei, nonnisi admodum improprie tribui: quia, scilicet, per fidem habemus sensum justificationis jam ante illam, & sine illa factae. Nam existimant justificationem esse aliquid quod fidem praecedit; & electos Dei justificatos esse, etiam antequam credant, & convertantur. Atque, quoniam ex eorum mente, justificatio vel ab aeterno facta est, vel saltem tum quum hominibus promissus est Christus Mediator, qui peccata nostra in se susciperet, & se pro nobis sponso rem justitiae divinae offerret; Itaque justificatio proprie accepta ipsis aliud non est, quam certa Dei voluntas de electis a peccato, propter Christum, absolvendis: nec, respectu hujus justificationis, fides aliam vim, aut officium habet, quam ut nos in ejus notitiam ducat, & de illa certos & securos reddat.
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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