Historical faith: bare assent that does not move to right living
Historical faith = bare assent to what God’s Word proposes.
Authority of God speaking — yet no move to right living, no betterment.
Simon Magus believed thus — heart not right; still in bitterness and iniquity (Acts 8).
Jewish leaders likewise: believed but would not confess Christ — loved men’s glory more (John 12).
Latin
I. Fidem Historicam Protestantes nominant nudum & simplicem assensum quem multi praebent iis quae Verbo Dei proponuntur, propter Dei dicentis & testantis authoritatem; sic tamen ut inde ad recte agendum non moveantur, nec reddantur meliores. Tali fide dicitur credidisse Simon Magus, cujus tamen cor rectum coram Deo non erat, & qui nihilominus in felle amaritudinis, & vinculis iniquitatis, judice Petro, positus manebat, Act. 8. Et simili quoque modo credebant illi Judaeorum primores, qui Christum non confitebantur, quoniam magis diligebant gloriam hominum, quam gloriam Dei, Joan. 12.
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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