Ames in Bellarmine Enervatus: will-seat with antecedent intellect assent — seeming clash
Ames (Bellarmine Enervatus 4.4.1) seats justifying faith in will yet requires antecedent intellect-assent and grants consequent intellect virtue.
Apparent clash with assent-as-effect is eased if assent follows pious affection but precedes resting/election acts.
Latin
XI. In Bellarmino vero Enervato eadem de re sic philosophatur, Observandum est nos ita in voluntate fidem quae justificat collocare, ut antecedentem intellectus assensum ad fidem requiri doceamus, & vim ac virtutem fidei in intellectu consequentem agnoscamus. Qua utraque ratione fidem populariter ita describere solemus, quasi partim esset in intellectu, & partim in voluntate. Tom. 4. lib. 4. cap. 1. Ubi obiter notandum in priori loco, quem modo citavimus, Amesium ponere assensum, tanquam effectum fidei, in hoc vero posteriori, illum antecedentem intellectus assensum ad fidem requirere; inter quae videtur esse manifesta contradictio. Nam si assensus est effectum fidei, quomodo fidem antecedit? Nisi quis ista sic conciliare velit, ut dicat, juxta Amesium, assensum esse fidei effectum, quia sequitur unum ex illis quae fidem constituunt, ex Amesii mente, nempe piam illam erga Deum affectionem, quae facit, ut maxime valeat apud nos ipsius testimonium; Eundem tamen assensum, secundum Amesium, fidem antecedere, respectu aliorum actuum, quibus etiam constat fides qui sunt illa, quam vocat, Acquiescentia in Deo ad illud quod proponitur consequendum, & electio vel apprehensio rei ipsius, quae in testimonio nobis exhibetur.
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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).
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)
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- 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)
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