Why Reformed definitions of justifying faith diverge — omit the common, mark the difference
Reformed definitions of justifying faith diverge for two reasons.
First: many omit what it shares with historical faith and mark only the difference — so they skip the assent justifying faith still gives to the whole revealed Word.
Second: some define from one property, others from another.
Latin
LXXXIII. Supra quoque docuimus fidem justificantem a Reformatis pluribus & discrepantibus modis describi atque definiri. Quae discrepantia inde primo oritur, quod multi in sua definitione omittunt id quod fides justificans commune habet cum fide historica: & solum notare volunt id quo fides justificans ab historica differt. Ut qui in sua definitione mentionem non faciunt assensus quem fides justificans praebet toti Verbo Dei ipsi revelato atque proposito. Deinde sunt qui fidem justificantem ab una proprietate, alii vero qui ab alia describunt.
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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