Special mercy certain promise is presumption, not faith necessary object (Bellarmine)
Roman doctors refuse to count a certain promise of special mercy among justifying faith objects; Bellarmine treats that as presumption rather than faith (De Justif. 1.4; 1.8).
Vasquez and others deny special mercy is a necessary faith-object, as they say heretics invent, while still requiring particular trust in divine promise for justification; what they reject is that each must believe his own sins already remitted as faith necessary object.
Latin
XXIII. Sed inter varia illa fidei justificantis objecta Doctores Scholae Romanae negant esse promissionem specialis misericordiae, quin potius certam promissionem specialis misericordiae, non tam ad fidem quam ad praesumptionem pertinere contendunt: ut testatur Bellarminus, lib. 1. de Justif. cap. 4. sub finem. Et cap. 8. probare conatur fidem esse justificantem, quamvis non respiciat misericordiam specialem; imo non esse justificantem, si eam misericordiam forte respiciat. Quin ipse Vasquez contendit, cum caeteris, misericordiam Dei specialem non esse objectum fidei necessarium, ut haereticos confingere dicit: cum tamen ad justificationem requirat particularem fidem & fiduciam divinae promissionis & misericordiae, ut uberius infra explicabitur. Sed quod negare intendit illud est ad fidem justificantem necessarium esse, ut quisque credat sibi peccata esse remissa. Quod & alii intelligunt, dum negant misericordiam specialem ad objectum fidei justificantis spectare.
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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).
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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).
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- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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- 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)
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