Common ground + name fight over calling remote-disposing faith saving
Both sides: Spirit-gifted assent without charity exists in the wicked and actually saves no one; Reformed allow remote preparation.
Name-fight: should remote-disposing faith be called true/saving? Better style reserves those names for faith that actually saves.
Latin
XXXVI. Porro, ut clarum est ex iis quae dicta sunt, Theologi Scholae Reformatae Ecclesiae Romanae Doctoribus concedunt, esse quandam fidem, quae sit Spiritus Sancti donum, & per quam aliquis reipsa Dei Verbo assentitur, quae tamen juncta non est cum charitate & bonis operibus; & in multis improbis hominibus reperitur. Consentiunt etiam utriusque Scholae Doctores, ejusmodi fidem actu neminem servare & justificare; neque negabunt Reformati illam esse quandam remotam ad salutem praeparationem. Quaestio solummodo est, an propterea quod remote ad justitiam & salutem disponat, illi tribui debeat nomen salvificae & justificantis, & nomen verae fidei; quia vero objecto, Spiritu Sancto movente, revera assentitur, quamvis de caetero credenti maneat inutilis. Quae quaestio, ut apparet, de nomine tantum est, cum de re ipsa constet. Quanquam rationi, & Scripturae stylo congruentius sit, eam solum fidem justificantem & salvificam vocare, quae actu servat atque salvificat, non vero eam quae actu & reipsa ad justitiam & salutem habentis nihil prodest. Ut & verae fidei nomen merito appropriari potest, illi quae finem suum assequitur, & per quam aliquis credit bene & sicut oportet. Praesertim cum saepe Scriptura fidem simpliciter nominans, ejusmodi fidem, & non aliam intelligat.
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.