English Confession: receive and rest in Christ — assurance of grace is not faith’s essence
English Confession 1647: chief acts = accept/receive Christ; rest/lean on Him alone for justification, sanctification, life (14.2).
Separates saving faith from certainty of being in grace (ch. 18).
True believers may long lack that certainty — so sense-fiducia is not faith’s formal essence.
Essence: lean-on/rest-in-Christ fiducia unto mercy.
Latin
LIV. Nec alia quoque potuit esse mens eorum qui Confessionem Anglicanam conscripserunt Anno 1647. Etenim praecipuos fidei salutaris actus dicunt esse acceptare & recipere Christum, & in eo solo acquiescere, sive illi soli inniti, ad justificationem, sanctificationem, & vitam aeternam, cap. 14. num. 2. Et praeterea distinguunt fidem salutarem a certitudine quod aliquis sit in Dei gratia, de qua separatim agunt cap. 18. Ubi ut supra notavimus, dicunt illam certitudinem non ita esse de fidei essentia, quin vere fidelis possit ea diu carere. Unde manifestum est, secundum eorum doctrinam, fiduciam illam sensus, quae est haec ipsa certitudo, non esse formalem & proprium actum qui essentiam fidei constituit, quandoquidem fides sine illo, saltem ad tempus subsistere potest: sed fiduciam aliam per quam Christo innitimur, & in eo acquiescimus, ut misericordiam a Deo consequamur.
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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