“Special mercy” as object — prefer saying grace-promises fiducially applied
“Special mercy is justifying faith’s proper object” means: unlike historical faith, it applies divine-mercy promises personally — before justification trusting sins will be remitted, after believing they have been.
The phrase is obscure and open to slander.
Le Blanc prefers (with many): principal object = grace-promises apprehended with practical fiducial assent and applied to oneself — same substance, clearer words.
Latin
XCII. Quod autem multi ex Protestantibus dicunt, misericordiam specialem esse proprium objectum fidei justificantis, per hoc non aliud significare volunt, quam proprium esse fidei justificantis, prout distinguitur a fide historica, ut promissiones divinae misericordiae sigillatim cuique credentium applicet: ea ratione ut ante justificationem peccata sibi esse remittenda confidat, & post justificationem credat sibi esse remissa. Sed quoniam hic loquendi modus obscurus est, & etiam calumniae obnoxius, mallem, quod multi faciunt, ab eo abstinere, & simpliciter dicere potissimum fidei justificantis objectum esse promissiones gratiae, prout sunt assensu practico & fiduciali a credente apprehendendae, & ipsi applicandae, quod eodem recidit.
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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