The persuasion treated here is reflex, secondary, for faith’s perfection—not justification’s instrument
Assurance is a reflex secondary act for faith’s perfection, not its essence.
It follows justification already made and cannot be justification’s instrumental condition.
Latin
XXIX. Itaque illa de qua agimus persuasio, fidei quidem actus est, sed reflexus, non directus; non primarius, sed secundarius. Nec ad fidei essentiam, sed ad perfectionem ejus solum pertinet. Prior ille est quo justificamur, cuique promittitur salus, & peccatorum remissio. Alter vero non item. Hic enim posterior, ut jam diximus, praesupponit fidem, tanquam in nobis ante existentem, & justificationem, ut jam factam sequitur: ac proinde in eo ipso fidei natura & essentia consistere nequit, sed quidam ejus est fructus & complementum. Nec potest esse justificationis conditio, sive causa instrumentalis; sed solum quidam ejus sensus & apprehensio.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu, Sedan Theses, newly rendered from Latin: from theology proper through the Roman theses I–77 and the Reformed theses of Part Two. The theses only — not the collected works.
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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