Philosophy the Handmaid of Theology · §46 · Robert Baron

Whether trust is an act of the intellect, and how it differs from assent

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Article XIX. Whether trust is an act of the intellect, and how it differs from assent.

1. Is trust in the intellect or the will? Roman Catholics commonly place it in the will. Orthodox distinguish.

2. As firm persuasion about God's promise, trust is an intellective act — not really distinct from faith's assent, but in reason: assent regards the testimony's truth; trust regards the promised good as applicable to me.

3. As loving motion and the will's resting on God, trust is a will-act — inseparable from faith in the justified, formally distinct.

4. Middle Orthodox view: justifying faith as assent and persuasion is in the intellect as proper subject; it belongs to the will by origin (will-commanded), concomitance (charity), and fruits.

Latin

ART. XIX. An fiducia sit actus intellectus, & quomodo differat ab assensu. 1. Quaeritur an fiducia sit in intellectu an in voluntate. Pontificii plerumque fiduciam ad voluntatem referunt. Orthodoxi distinguunt. 2. Fiducia, quatenus est firma persuasio & judicium mentis de DEI promissione, est actus intellectus, & non differt realiter ab assensu fidei, sed ratione: assensus respicit veritatem testimonii; fiducia respicit bonitatem rei promissae ut mihi applicabilis. 3. Fiducia, quatenus est amorosus in DEUM motus & recumbentia voluntatis, est actus voluntatis, a fide inseparabilis in justificato, sed formaliter distinctus. 4. Sententia Orthodоxa mediа: tota fides justificans est in intellectu tanquam in subjecto proprio quoad assensum & persuasionem; sed ad voluntatem pertinet ratione originis (a voluntate imperata), ratione concomitantiae (charitas), & ratione fructuum.

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Robert Baron, Philosophia theologiae ancillans (Philosophy in Service to Theology): exercises on being and essence, on the origin of the soul and the spread of sin, and on faith, science, and opinion, rendered from the 1658 Latin.

Dateby 1621 AD (first printed at St Andrews, 1621; this text is from the corrected Oxford reprint of 1658; Reformed)

English follows 1658 Oxford Latin. Prima Art. I-XII from IA PDF leaves ~15-53. Secunda Art. I-XV from PDF leaves 56-107 / printed pp.54-105 (tess+pdftotext+DjVu). No modern English copied. The third exercise, on faith, science, and opinion, is included.

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Wing B887. IA bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_philosophia-theologi-an_baron-robert_1658. Exercitatio Prima Art. I-XII; Exercitatio Secunda Art. I-XV (De origine animae & propagatione peccati). Exercitatio Tertia Art. I-XXX is included.

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