Paraeus: special-mercy fiducia — before, in, and after justification
Paraeus: special-mercy fiducia in the repenting sinner precedes justification by nature-order — as in the Publican who first cries for mercy, trusting pardon will come.
It accompanies the justifying act (sins are remitted to me now) and follows it (sins have been remitted — he goes home justified).
Special object: Gospel promise in future, present, and past tenses to me/you/him believing in the Son.
Before the act (by nature, not time): will be remitted; in the act: are remitted; after: have been remitted.
Latin
LXVI. Simile quoque apud Paraeum videre est. Fiducia, inquit, specialis misericordiae in peccatore resipiscente naturae ordine praecedit justificationem: ut videri est in Publicano, qui prius ex fide implorat misericordiam, propitius esto mihi peccatori, hoc est, confidit se accepturum veniam peccatorum: concomitatur in actu enim justificationis confidit sibi remitti peccata: tandem & sequitur; justificatus enim eadem fiducia sibi esse remissa peccata descendit in domum suam. Unde postea colligit objectum speciale fidei justificantis esse promissionem Evangelii de futuro, & praesenti, & praeterito, cuivis, mihi, tibi, illi, credenti in Filium, per Filium in sanguinem ejus remittentur, remittuntur, remissa sunt peccata. Et tandem concludit his verbis, Et sic ante justificationis actum, ante dico natura, non tempore, fides vel fiducia nostra, pro objecto habet propositionem hanc de futuro, mihi credenti remittentur peccata; in ipso actu justificationis hanc de praesenti, mihi remittuntur peccata; post actum justificationis hanc de praeterito, mihi remissa sunt peccata. In l. 1. Bel. de Justif. c. 10. Responsione ad secundam rationem.
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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