Status controversiae: Protestants reject all such cult as superstition; Rome affirms it under anathema and solemn praxis
Protestants with one mouth refuse every such rite as superstition against God’s word.
The quarrel’s status is simply whether kneeling, bare head, incense, and candles before images please God—Rome says yes under anathema and universal praxis.
Latin
XII. Omnem vero ejusmodi cultum, quocunque tandem nomine vocetur, Protestantes communi consensu rejiciunt, ut superstitiosum, & verbo Dei contrarium. Atque in eo consistit hujus controversiae status, inter Ecclesiam Romanam, & Protestantium Ecclesias omnes, An, scilicet, pium sit, Deoque gratum & acceptum, coram imaginibus, vel Christi, vel Sanctorum, procumbere, caput aperire, incensum adolere, cereos accendere, & ritus alios similes exercere religionis ergo? Quod uno ore negant Protestantes, affirmant vero Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae tanquam aliquid ab Ecclesia sua sub anathemate sancitum, & solenni ac universali praxi illius confirmatum.
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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