Many theologians — Spirit imprints more certainty than the motives carry
Escape: faith’s whole certainty does not hang on the motives.
Spirit uses motives, but imprints more certainty than they carry.
Summit referred to internal Spirit-testimony (hidden powerful operation) — Le Blanc has followed this elsewhere.
Latin
XXX. Multi Theologi, ut hinc se expediant, negant fidem hic reduci ad ista argumenta, sive incitamenta, ut inde tota ejus certitudo pendeat. Nam Spiritum Sanctum iis quidem uti ut nos ad fidem impellat, & adducat, sed menti fidelium majorem de verbo Dei certitudinem imprimere, quam per se argumenta istiusmodi ferant. Itaque summam illam fidei certitudinem referunt ad internum Spiritus testimonium, id est, ut jam explicuimus, ad occultam & potentissimam Spiritus Sancti operationem, qua immediate certissimam illam de verbo Dei persuasionem mentibus fidelium indit. Quod & nos in aliis Thesibus secuti sumus.
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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