Perceiving those reasons depends on grace-changed will affections
Grasping faith's reasons somehow hangs on the will: as one is affected, so one judges.
Grace must change will-affections so the mind can weigh motives; faith rises from judged truth, not bare will-imperium — yet pious affection opens the door.
Latin
XX. Verum ut rationum istarum vim percipiamus, & ad illas mentem, ut decet, advertamus, quodammodo pendet a nostra voluntate. Etenim ut quisque est affectus, ita judicat. Ac cupiditates terrenae quae voluntatem nostram a coelestibus avertunt, mentem etiam obscurant, & distinent, ne se applicet iis quae cupiditatibus ejusmodi repugnant, aut vim penetret rationum quae nos ab iis abducere debent, quales sunt illae quibus veritates fidei comprobantur. Ac proinde ut fidem concipiamus, necesse est per Dei gratiam voluntatem nostram immutari, & novos affectus in ea excitari, ne quicquam impediat quominus animum, sicut convenit, applicemus ad ea quae fidem suadent meditanda & consideranda, & vim eorum ita percipiendam, ut eorum ponderi credamus, & fides animis nostris ingeneretur, non ex mero aliquo voluntatis imperio, sed quia omnibus expensis vera esse fidei mysteria judicamus, eo certissimis argumentis adducti, & motivis maxime momentosis impulsi. Quod tamen ut fiat requiritur bonus aliquis voluntatis motus, & pia quidem ejus affectio, quae quodammodo veritati aditum in mentem aperiat, ut ex dictis manifestum est.
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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