Yet Rome requires mercy-fiducia for justification — partly logomachy
Rome still requires resting trust on divine mercy with hope of remission, so some of the clash is a fight over words.
Reformed special mercy as object usually means non-antecedent mercy under trust counted as faith; Romans deny chiefly antecedent mercy as faith object while distinguishing faith from trust, yet still require trust of divine mercy for justification.
Latin
LVIII. Nec tamen propterea negant ad justificationem requiri fiduciam divinae misericordiae, qua scilicet quis in divinam misericordiam recumbat, & speret sive confidat, se peccatorum suorum remissionem a Deo obtenturum. Adeo ut hic quoque videatur aliquid esse logomachiae. Nam dum Doctores Reformati plerique affirmant misericordiam specialem esse fidei quatenus justificat objectum, non agunt de misericordia speciali antecedente, ac praeterea sub fide fiduciam includunt, & statuunt specialem istam misericordiam objectum esse fidei, quia circa illam versatur fiducia quam fidei actum esse existimant. Dum vero negant Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae misericordiam specialem esse fidei justificantis objectum, agunt potissimum de misericordia speciali antecedente, ac praeterea fidem a fiducia distinguunt. Neque idcirco negant misericordiae divinae fiduciam ad justificationem requiri, & omnino necessariam esse.
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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