After true faith, the word works: terror, peace, new creature
Another side: certainty grows after true admission of the word.
Word works hard: first sharp terror of sin and wrath.
Then sweet comfort — peace beyond understanding, unspeakable joy (Phil 4:7; 1 Pet 1:8).
Changes affections; frees from vice; renews whole man — soberly, justly, piously; new creature.
Latin
XLV. Verum adhuc alia ex parte certitudo quaedam fidei accrescit. Postquam enim aliquis Dei verbum admittit vera & sincera fide, verbum istud potenter & efficaciter in eo operatur. Nam primo conscientiam terret atque percellit acutissimo peccati & irae Dei sensu. Deinde illam consolatione suavissima mulcet, & creat in ea pacem quae superat omnem intellectum & gaudium inenarrabile: Phil. 4.7. 1 Petr. 1.8. Tum quoque hominum affectus immutat, pravos corrigit, turbatos componit, impuros mundat atque purificat: Et liberat animum a servitute vitiorum, ut libenter & alacriter Deum colat, & ipsi serviat: adeoque sic hominem totum intus & extra innovat, ut omni impietati & cupiditatibus mundanis renuncians, sobrie, juste & pie in hoc saeculo vivat, atque eo nomine nova creatura dici mereatur.
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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