Wendelin: special-mercy faith — future, present, and past remission as object
Other Reformed also split special-mercy fiducia into acts before/after justification.
Wendelin: before the act, not ‘already remitted to me’; rather ‘will come to me’.
In the justifying act: believes sins are being remitted — receives remission (Acts 26).
After: past application + future remissions.
Special object = remission future, present, and past.
Latin
LXIII. Eodem modo plures alii Theologi varios actus distinguunt in fiducia illa, quae alias ab iis dicitur fides specialis misericordiae; & observant quosdam praecedere justificationem, quosdam vero minime. Istud videre est apud Wendelinum. Fides, inquit, specialis misericordiae, quantum praecedit justificationem (si modo tempore, & non ordine tantum praecedit) non credit homo sibi, jam ante fidei actum, remissa esse peccata, quoad applicationem; sed peccatorum remissionem Christi merito impetratam sibi quoque eventuram, in ipso justificationis actu credit peccata sibi remitti; & sic accipit remissionem peccatorum: Unde expressius dicitur peccatorum remissio accipi per fidem Act. 26. Post justificationem credit praeteritam applicationem; credit quoque sibi remissum iri futura peccata, per futuram applicationem. Habet igitur fides justificans pro objecto suo speciali, remissionem peccatorum futuram, praesentem, & praeteritam. Christ. Theolog. lib. 1. cap. 24. ad Thesin 11.
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)
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- 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)
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