Two marks: practical assent, and particular application of the promises
Reformed: two things mark living/justifying faith off from historical/dead.
Historical = theoretical — sticks in the theoretical intellect.
Justifying = practical assent — recalls belief to practice; moves will and affections.
Historical: only general assent to promises; justifying: applies them to each believer one by one.
Latin
XVIII. Caeterum ex istis omnibus fidei justificantis & salutiferae definitionibus apparet duo esse quae, juxta Reformatos, fidem vivam & justificantem ab historica & mortua distinguunt. Primum est quod fides illa Historica Theoretica est, & in intellectu Theoretico haeret; fides vero Justificans est assensus practicus, per quem ea quae creduntur, quaelibet suo modo, revocantur ad praxim, & quo voluntas & affectus hominis efficaciter moventur atque afficiuntur; ut rebus creditis conformiter agant. Alterum est quod fides historica divinis promissionibus assensum duntaxat generalem praebet, fides vero justificans illas credenti cuilibet sigillatim applicat.
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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