Historical vs saving faith — bare theoretical assent vs practical applying faith
Common Reformed judgment: historical faith and saving/justifying faith must be sharply distinguished.
Historical: bare simple assent to God’s Word — from the Spirit, but stuck in theoretical intellect, not moving will or affections.
Saving: lights the mind and moves practice — will and affections; refers the Word to the believer’s use; specially applies God’s promises.
Historical faith only idly contemplates what it believes as if it did not touch him.
Latin
LXXXI. Porro ut de singulis istis quae a nobis hactenus exposita fuerunt, & circa quae Scholae Reformatae Doctores varie sentire & loqui videntur, mentem nostram aperiamus, ostendimus ex communi Reformatorum sententia, fidem historicam a fide salvifica & justificante accurate distinguendam esse, & inter utramque magnum esse discrimen. Nempe fidem historicam esse nudum & simplicem assensum praebitum Verbo Dei; profectum quidem a Spiritu Sancto, sed in solo intellectu theoretico inhaerentem, & qui voluntatem & affectus non moveat: Fidem vero salvificam non solum theoreticam mentem illuminare, sed practicam quoque afficere, ac voluntatem & affectus permovére; & quod inde consequens est, eandem salvificam fidem ea quae Verbum Dei docet ad credentis usum referre, & speciatim Dei promissiones credenti applicare: quod non praestat fides historica, siquidem illa quae credit otiose contemplatur, tanquam res ad se nihil attinentes.
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.