Four senses of fiducia — rest in God, grace-persuasion, fortitude, conscience-quiet
Reformed speak variously of fiducia: some call it faith’s primary proper act; others only faith’s offspring/effect — and the name itself shifts.
Four acceptations Le Blanc repeats: (1) reclining on God as salvation’s fountain; (2) firm persuasion of obtained grace, pardon, and reconciliation; (3) spiritual fortitude against life’s evils; (4) conscience-quiet / spiritual security against servile fear.
Latin
XCVI. Praecipue vero Scholae Reformatae Theologi de fiducia varie loquuntur: dum quidam dicunt, ut supra visum est, fiduciam esse partem fidei primariam, & proprium illius actum, alii vero istud negant, & docent fiduciam esse quidem fidei prolem atque effectum, sed non tamen actum ejus proprie dictum: ac praeterea fiduciae nomine, alii quidem istud, alii vero aliud intelligunt. Qua de re ut mentem nostram aperiamus, repetendae sunt variae fiduciae acceptiones, quae supra fuerunt a nobis recensitae. Primum ergo fiduciae nomine intelligitur actus ille per quem in Deum recumbimus, illi innitimur, & ei adhaeremus; tanquam fonti & authori salutis, ut vitam & salutem ab eo consequamur. Secundo, fiducia apud multos designat firmam persuasionem de gratia & venia a Deo impetrata, & de nostra cum eo reconciliatione. Tertio, fiducia sumitur pro spirituali fortitudine, & animositate, qua animi nervos & robur opponimus iis malis & periculis quibuscum in hac vita mortali confligimus. Denique, fiducia sumitur pro conscientiae serenitate & tranquillitate, seu pro spirituali quadam securitate, quae opponitur timori servili.
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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