Wendelin: fiducia as persuasion we are counted just — required beyond general assent
Other Reformed: proper specific act = persuasion I am accepted and given life for Christ’s merit.
Wendelin: fiducia = third/principal part — apply general Gospel promises; persuaded we are reputed just and heirs.
Respect of this fiducia: faith called saving/justifying.
God justifies none who do not trust in Christ and firmly believe sins remitted for His merit.
Notitia or general assent alone does not suffice.
Latin
LV. Alii tamen Scholae Reformatae Theologi aliter explicant fiduciam istam, quam dicunt esse proprium & specificum actum fidei justificantis: nempe docent eam esse persuasionem qua fideles singuli certo apud se statuunt, se propter Christi meritum Deo gratos & acceptos esse, sibiique donatam esse salutem & vitam aeternam. Sic Wendelinus explicat fiduciam quam fidei tribuit. Fiducia, inquit, est tertia & principalis pars fidei justificantis, qua generales Evangelii promissiones nobis applicamus, & nos propter Christi meritum justos a Deo reputari, aeternaeque vitae haeredes fore, plane persuasum habemus. Lib. 1. cap. 24. Thesi 15. Et in Explicatione addit, Respectu fiduciae hujus fides appellatur salvifica & justificans. Neminem enim justificat Deus, nisi qui fiduciam in Christo collocat, & propter ejus meritum sibi peccata remitti firmiter credit. Itaque ad salutem non sufficit notitia mysteriorum divinorum, vel assensus etiam generalis; sed necessario requiritur quoque fiducia.
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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