Rivetus: special object of justifying faith — Evangelical promise of Christ the Mediator
Rivetus (Leiden Synopsis): faith in breadth embraces notitia, assent, fiducia toward all revealed unto salvation.
Yet as justifying it has a special object.
That object: the Evangelical promise of Christ the Mediator — what marks it off from other senses of faith.
It justifies/saves insofar as it apprehends and embraces Christ’s merit revealed in the Gospel word.
Latin
XXI. Sic docet Andr. Rivetus in Synopsi purioris Theologiae Professorum Leydensium, Quamvis, inquit, fides in sua latitudine sumpta, ut complectatur supernaturalem notitiam, assensum & fiduciam, quaecunque in Dei verbo tanquam ad salutem conducentia nobis sunt revelata, complectatur; est tamen quoddam fidei objectum speciale, quatenus est justificans. Postea vero explicat quodnam sit illud speciale fidei justificantis objectum: Fidei, inquit, quatenus est justificans, speciale objectum, & quod eam proprie a reliquis fidei acceptionibus discriminat, est promissio Evangelica de Christo mediatore. Eatenus enim proprie justificat & salvat, quatenus Christi meritum, in Verbo Evangelii sibi revelatum, apprehendit & amplectitur. Disputatione de Fide, Thesi 9, & 10.
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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