Assurance of one’s justification is not the same necessity as assent to articles of faith
Doubting a gospel article unbelief; doubting one’s own sincerity need not.
Protestants refuse to equate assurance of status with assent to the creed.
Latin
XXXVII. Praeterea juxta communem Protestantium doctrinam, ut clarum est ex iis quae superiori disputatione exposita fuerunt, certitudo quam quis habet de sua coram Deo justificatione non est ejusdem omnino rationis, cum certitudine illa quam habemus de fidei articulis, & dogmatibus illis quae verbo Dei expresse continentur, nempe, neque tanta est, neque paris necessitatis: cum pro infideli merito habeatur qui revocat in dubium an Jesus sit Dei filius; non vero statim quicunque dubitat an peccatorum suorum remissionem adeptus sit, quia pro certo statuere non audet suam fidem & poenitentiam satis veram & synceram esse. Adeoque hic quaestio non est, An eadem omnino fide qua fidei dogmata creduntur, teneatur quisque fidelis credere se esse in Dei gratia, seque vere regeneratum & justificatum esse; cum inter haec diversitatem quandam agnoscant Protestantes.
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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