Ames, Wittich, Mestrezat: heart’s rest in God — hunger for justice; refuge to mercy

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Ames: faith = heart’s rest in God as author of life/eternal salvation.

Will-act embracing the good the intellect approves (Marrow I.3); virtue leaning on God’s faithfulness (I.27).

Wittich: hunger and thirst for justice + heart’s rest in God as salvation’s fountain.

Mestrezat: justifying faith = penitent sinner’s refuge to God’s mercy in Christ.

Latin

XII. Juxta Gulielmum Amesium Anglum, Professorem Franekeræ, Fides est acquiescentia cordis in Deo, tanquam in authore vitae, vel salutis aeternae; id est, ut per ipsum ab omni malo liberemur, & omne bonum consequamur. Per illam autem cordis acquiescentiam intelligit actum voluntatis, quo movetur & extendit sese ad amplectendum bonum ab intellectu probatum, ut explicat ipse mentem suam in Medulla Theologiae, lib. 1. cap. 3. Ejusdem autem operis lib. 1. cap. 27. fides ab eo definitur, Virtus qua Dei fidelitati adhaerentes nitimur ipso, ut quod proponit consequamur. Amesio hac in parte consentit supra laudatus Wittichius, siquidem illo definiente, Fides est fames & sitis justitiae & acquiescentia cordis in Deo, ut fonte & authore salutis; ut ei animas nostras in angustiis & tentationibus committamus. In Theologia Pacifica, cap. 11. num. 128. Quibus affinis est fidei definitio quam tradit vir Doctissimus Joannes Mestrezatius, Verbi Divini, dum viveret Minister apud Parisienses, in Gallicis suis Homiliis: ubi fidem justificantem dicit esse perfugium peccatoris poenitentis ad Dei in Christo misericordiam.

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

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Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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