Zanchi: generic faith ≠ bare fiducia — yet justifying faith nearly is fiducia
Zanchi: faith in general ≠ mere fiducia — faith also regards the law and whole Word.
Yet justifying faith is trust, or differs little from it.
Justifying faith = firm undoubted assent to promises of remission, justice, eternal life in Christ — Spirit-excited.
Fiducia = most sure persuasion we shall obtain what God freely promised.
Latin
XLV. Zanchius autem fidem in genere acceptam, prout ab ipso supra definita est, a fiducia distinguit, & refellit eos qui dicunt fidem nihil aliud esse quam fiduciam. Quoniam fiducia promissionibus tantum & Evangelio nititur; fides autem ipsam quoque legem respicit, & quicquid est Dei verbum. Tom. 4. lib. 1. cap. 12. tit. De Fide. Sed in eodem capite, titulo De Fiducia, docet fidem qua justificamur aliud non esse revera quam fiduciam, aut certe parum ab ea differre. Unde colligit fidem justificantem & fiduciam idem sunt, vel certe parum inter se differre; & definitionem fidei justificantis, cum fiduciae definitione, eodem redire: Firmus & indubitatus assensus in promissiones Dei de remissione peccatorum, & justitia accipienda, aeternaque vita consequenda a Deo, per & propter filium Jesum Christum, ex afflatu Spiritus Sancti in nobis excitatus. Et quid fiducia? Certissima persuasio de veritate promissionum Dei, qua non dubitamus, quin consecuturi simus, quaecunque nobis simpliciter pro sua gratia pollicitus est Deus: Hoc est enim confidere, idem firmiter credere, & sine ulla haesitatione sperare te habiturum quod ab aliquo tibi promissum est, seu securum esse de rebus promissis propter veritatem promittentis. In Explicatione Theseos primae.
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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