Many in Rome deny image-adoration and call the charge a Protestant calumny—so the true Roman doctrine must be sought
Many Romans—lay and some doctors—deny they adore images and call the charge a calumny.
They claim their Church gives adoration-cult only to the one true God.
So Le Blanc will dig out Rome’s real doctrine on image-cult, lest Reformers be falsely blamed for inventing it.
Latin
I. In Ecclesia Romana permulti, praecipue qui sunt de plebe cordatiores, & Doctores etiam nonnulli, queruntur se calumniam pati, quum dicuntur a Protestantibus imagines Dei Christique, & etiam sanctorum mortuorum adorare, ac profitentur non tantum se, sed Ecclesiam quoque suam ab hac adoratione esse alienissimam, nec eam cultum adorationis rei ulli omnino deferre, quam uni soli vero Deo. Igitur operae pretium duximus diligenter inquirere in veram Ecclesiae & Scholae Romanae doctrinam circa imaginum cultum & adorationem, tum ne quis ipsi sententiam alienam affingat, tum etiam ut pateat an merito Reformati calumniae accusentur, quum Ecclesiae Romanae adorationem imaginum tribuunt.
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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