Post-faith sealing is not the earlier operation that creates faith
This post-faith sealing (adoption and Gospel divinity via divine effects) is not the Spirit's creating infusion.
The creating work is what people commonly call inward testimony.
Creating testimony precedes faith by nature.
Experimental sealing follows faith and presupposes it.
Latin
XLVIII. Verum hoc Spiritus Sancti testimonium, quod intus perhibet adoptioni nostrae & Evangelici verbi veritati & divinitati, per effecta varia ac plane divina, quae in nobis producit, mediante Dei verbo fide suscepto & admisso, distinguendum est ab altera illius operatione, qua fidem in nobis creat & infundit, & quae etiam vulgo testimonium internum Spiritus appellari solet. Etenim illud testimonium fidem natura praecedit, ut patet; hoc vero fidem consequitur, & illam supponit.
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.