Calvin and the common Catechism: sure knowledge and trust of God’s love in Christ

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Better seen from defining justifying faith and its acts/parts.

Reformed definitions vary in wording — nearly the same sense.

Calvin: firm sure knowledge of God’s goodwill to us, on the free promise in Christ, Spirit-revealed and heart-sealed.

Common Catechism: sure persuasion/trust that the Father loves me for Jesus’ sake.

Latin

VII. Sed quomodo fides justificans ab historica differat, ex fidei justificantis definitione, & actuum ac partium ejus expositione melius constare poterit. Porro fides justificans a Reformatis varie describitur, & plures proferuntur ejus definitiones, quae videri possunt plus minusve commodae, sed tamen quoad sensum, eodem fere recidunt. Juxta Calvinum fides justificans est, Divinae erga nos benevolentiae firma certaque cognitio, quae gratuitae in Christo promissionis veritate fundata, per Spiritum Sanctum revelatur mentibus nostris, & cordibus obsignatur: cui consentit descriptio brevis illius Catechismi vulgaris, in quo fides dicitur esse Certa persuasio, vel fiducia quam debet habere quilibet Christianus, quod Deus pater ipsum amat propter filium suum Jesum Christum.

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)
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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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