Vermigli, Musculus, Placeus: firm assent that draws fiducia, hope, charity

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Vermigli: firm sure assent to God’s words, Spirit-breathed unto salvation.

‘Firm’ means efficacy that pulls fiducia, hope, charity, and good works along (as this life allows).

Musculus: constant heart-assent to what the word narrates or promises.

Placeus (Saumur): tenacious efficacious persuasion — especially remission and eternal-life promises in Christ.

Latin

XIII. Apud Petrum Martyrem fides definitur, Firmus certusque animi assensus verbis Dei, a spiritu divino afflatus ad salutem credentium. Postea vero exponit quid per assensum firmum intelligat, nempe, Illum qui tantarum sit virium & efficaciae, ut secum trahat affectum fiduciae, spei, charitatis, & omnia tandem bona opera, ut praesentis vitae infirmitas patitur. Locor. commun. Classe 3. cap. 4. num. 5. Musculus similiter fidem definit, Constantem assensum cordis ad ea quae vel narrantur, vel promittuntur verbo. Loco de Fide, Sectione 1. Et eodem redit definitio fidei quae legitur apud Josuam Placeum, Professorem Salmuriensem doctissimum & acutissimum, cui Fides est Tenax & efficax persuasio veritatis eorum quae verbo Dei nobis revelata sunt, speciatim vero promissionum remissionis peccatorum & vitae aeternae nobis per Christum factae. Thesibus de Justificatione Thesi 36.

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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