Whether the object of saving faith is remission of sins already obtained, or remission to be obtained
Article XX. Whether the object of saving faith is remission of sins already obtained, or remission to be obtained.
1. Is justifying faith's object remission already had, or Christ and the promise of remission through faith?
2. With the Orthodox: the primary object is Christ the Mediator and God's promise in him. Faith justifies not by believing remission already formally inheres, but by apprehending Christ, in whom remission is offered and by faith applied.
3. Bellarmine: if faith were trust of particular remission already had, it would presuppose the justification it causes. Solved: faith does not presuppose remission as inhering before faith; it follows and applies it. The object is the promise and Christ — not remission as prior possession.
Latin
ART. XX. Utrum objectum fidei salvificae sit remissio peccatorum jam impetrata? An vero sit remissio peccatorum impetranda & obtinenda: Ubi obiter solvitur praecipuum argumentum Bellarmini, contra objectum & naturam fidei justificantis. 1. Quaeritur an objectum fidei justificantis sit remissio jam habita, an potius CHRISTUS & promissio remissionis obtinendae per fidem. 2. Nos cum Orthodoxis: objectum fidei justificantis primarium est CHRISTUS Mediator, & DEI promissio in ipso; fides justificat non quia credit remissionem jam formaliter inesse, sed quia CHRISTUM apprehendit, in quo remissio offertur & per fidem applicatur. 3. Bellarmini argumentum — si fides esset fiducia remissionis particularis jam habitae, praesupponeret justificationem quam dicitur causare — solvitur: fides non praesupponit remissionem tanquam jam inhaerentem ante fidem, sed eam consequitur & applicat; objectum est promissio & CHRISTUS, non remissio tanquam praevia possessio.
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Robert Baron, Philosophia Theologiae Ancillans (Philosophy in Service to Theology): the first exercise, on being and essence, and the second, on the origin of the soul and the spread of sin — newly rendered from Latin. Later exercises are not in this volume.
English follows locked 1658 Oxford Latin. Prima Art. I-XII from IA PDF leaves ~15-53. Secunda Art. I-XV from PDF leaves 56-107 / printed pp.54-105 (tess+pdftotext+DjVu). No modern English copied. Exercitatio Tertia+ remain.
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Wing B887. IA bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_philosophia-theologi-an_baron-robert_1658. Exercitatio Prima Art. I-XII; Exercitatio Secunda Art. I-XV (De origine animae & propagatione peccati). Not whole Philosophia (213 pp). Exercitatio Tertia+ remain.
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