Philosophy the Handmaid of Theology · §48 · Robert Baron

Whether and how far faith belongs to the will

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Article XXI. Whether and how far faith belongs to the will.

1. Estius puts faith with the will; others put it wholly in the intellect. We distinguish.

2. As assent and judgment, faith is in the intellect as proper subject. It still belongs to the will: by origin (the will commands the intellect to attend and assent); by state (faith directs the will); by fruits (love, trust, obedience born from faith in the will).

3. Unlike Estius, we do not seat faith in the will by origin alone, but relate it to the will by command, concomitance, and fruits.

Latin

ART. XXI. An & quatenus fides ad voluntatem pertineat. 1. Guilielmus Estius dicit fidem ad voluntatem pertinere. Alii fidem totam in intellectu collocant. Nos distinguimus. 2. Fides quoad assensum & judicium est in intellectu tanquam in subjecto proprio. Ad voluntatem tamen pertinet: (1) ratione originis — quia voluntas imperat intellectui ut attendat & assentiatur; (2) ratione status — quia fides dirigit voluntatem; (3) ratione fructuum — quia ex fide nascuntur in voluntate amor, fiducia, obedientia. 3. Haec sententia differt ab Estii, quia non refert fidem ad voluntatem ratione suae originis solius tanquam in voluntate subjectatae, sed ratione imperii, concomitantiае, & 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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