Historical faith: bare assent that does not move to right living
Historical faith = bare assent to what God’s Word proposes.
Authority of God speaking — yet no move to right living, no betterment.
Simon Magus believed thus — heart not right; still in bitterness and iniquity (Acts 8).
Jewish leaders likewise: believed but would not confess Christ — loved men’s glory more (John 12).
Latin
I. Fidem Historicam Protestantes nominant nudum & simplicem assensum quem multi praebent iis quae Verbo Dei proponuntur, propter Dei dicentis & testantis authoritatem; sic tamen ut inde ad recte agendum non moveantur, nec reddantur meliores. Tali fide dicitur credidisse Simon Magus, cujus tamen cor rectum coram Deo non erat, & qui nihilominus in felle amaritudinis, & vinculis iniquitatis, judice Petro, positus manebat, Act. 8. Et simili quoque modo credebant illi Judaeorum primores, qui Christum non confitebantur, quoniam magis diligebant gloriam hominum, quam gloriam Dei, Joan. 12.