On this episode of five minutes in church history, let's explore five theological Latin terms.

You've probably heard these terms before, but let's see what we can find.

First is Fides. This is one of the three theological virtues

alongside of love and hope we have Fidesse. Faith. Now the reformers looked at faith by three more Latin words to fully understand what

saving faith is.

The first is Notisha.

This is the idea of knowledge of propositions. This is the content of the

gospel that we are talking about, no tisia. This has to do with the intellect. The next word is a census. This also has to do with the

intellect. It is the acknowledgement of the notisha. That is to, it is to acknowledge the truth of the gospel, the propositions of the

gospel. These are both intellectual activities. The third moves us into the category of apprehension.

It is Thuducia.

It means literally trust, but it is the idea of apprehending the Notesia,

the truth of the gospel. It is an act of the will that appropriates personally

the truth of the gospel. Sometimes it's described as whole personed trust in the gospel. So the first word

Fides. The second word imputatio, this is the theological word imputation.

To impute means to reckon and there are two kinds of imputation.

And we'll use Latin for this first is imputatio pecati.

That is the imputation of sin. That's Adam's sin that is put on my account. So I'm reckoned a

sinner. I am a sinner. But then there's the imputatio satisfactionus Christi, that is Christ's righteous satisfaction

of the divine justice, of God's wrath, that work of Christ is directly and immediately imputed to me.

So I'm not a sinner, but I am reckoned righteous, not because of anything I have done, but because

of what Christ has done and how it has been applied to my account, impute to you. The third word is a short word, Lex. Just means law. Samuel Rutherford

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