If the light of truth determined assent, faith would be evident; Scripture sets faith against sight

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Next: if the proper and chief ground of faith were the very light of truth discerned in the things to be believed, the light that necessarily determines the mind to assent, then faith would be an evident assent, and the dogmas of faith would be evident. For what is evident is what convinces the mind by its own light and compels assent. But it is almost an axiom of the schools, founded in the Scriptures, that faith is an inevident habit of the mind. Scripture sets faith against sight, and teaches that faith is of things that are not seen.

Latin

XXVIII. Deinde, si propria et potissima fidei ratio esset ipsa lux veritatis, quae in rebus credendis cernitur, quaeque mentem ad assensum necessario determinat, fides esset assensus evidens, et dogmata fidei essent evidentia. Siquidem illud est evidens quod luce sua mentem convincit, et cogit ad assensum. At est veluti quoddam scholarum axioma, in Scripturis fundatum, fidem esse habitum mentis inevidentem; quandoquidem Scriptura fidem opponit aspectui: et docet fidem eorum esse quae non videntur.

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)
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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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