Perkins to Ames: post-justification persuasion vs pre-justification refuge-fiducia
More carefully: after justification the believer applies promises by sure persuasion that the goods are his.
Before justification the repenting sinner applies them by refuge-fiducia — fleeing to God’s glory and mercy in Christ, seeking and longing with the whole heart, resting on God’s goodness, expecting liberation and saving good from God through Christ alone.
So Perkins, Davenant, Wittich, Ames — and that refuge-motion is what they mean by fiducia as faith’s chief part.
Latin
LXXVII. Alii vero distinctius ea de re loquentes, docent fidelem quidem, post justificationem, sibi promissiones divinas applicare per certam persuasionem quod bona promissa ad eum pertineant; sed peccatorem poenitentem, ante justificationem, applicare sibi easdem promissiones, per fiduciam illam qua confugit ad Dei gloriam & misericordiam in Christo, eamque toto corde & quaerit & exoptat, Dei vero bonitate & fidelitate nitens, non aliunde quam a Deo per Christum a malis suis liberationem, & salutaris boni communicationem expectat. Quae est doctrina Perkinsii, Davenantii, Wittichii, Amesii, & plurium aliorum, qui per fiduciam istam, quam fidei partem potissimam faciunt, jam dictum animi motum intelligunt.
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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