Assent may be firm yet groundless; true certainty needs a legitimate foundation in the thing
Firm assent without a real foundation is persuasion, not true certainty.
This controversy concerns only certainty that is both firm and legitimately grounded in the thing.
Latin
II. Porro ista assensus firmitas quandoque nullum habet in re ipsa fundamentum; sed oritur solum ab assentientis errore, affectu, vel pertinacia, & tum non est veri nominis certitudo. Qui enim certo credunt quae falsa sunt, non tam certi, quam persuasi dici debent. Alias vero firmus ejusmodi assensus clara perceptione, aut solida ratione, vel legitimo aliquo testimonio nititur. Et tum demum vera est, & proprie dicta certitudo: quae locum non habet, nisi ubi persuasio, non modo firma, sed vera atque legitima est. In praesenti vero quaestione ratio non habetur certitudinis illius prioris, & improprie dictae; sed posterioris solum certitudinis, quae non tantum notat firmitatem assensus in credente, vel cognoscente; sed etiam legitimum ejus, ex parte rei, fundamentum.
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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