Chief cult-part: invocation—Saints know at least what touches their beatitude, including living prayers for their help

Invocation is the chief Roman cult of Saints and Angels—spoken aloud or by heart alone.

School premise: reigning Saints need not know all earthly events, yet know what touches their beatitude—including cult and pleas for their aid.

Hence it is certain for them that the dead Saints hear the living’s prayers.

Slice closes at XL; next frontier is Romana XLI–LXXVII (how they hear; merits; patrons; Marian dominion), then Pars Secunda Reformata.

Latin

XL. Sed praecipua pars cultus qui Sanctis hominibus & Angelis impenditur in Ecclesia Romana consistit in eorum invocatione, & precibus quae ad illos diriguntur, tum voce, tum etiam solo cordis affectu, & interna mentis loquela. Qua de re ut accuratius teneatur Scholae Romanae Doctrina, observandum est Theologos illius communiter supponere Sanctos cum Christo regnantes, non quidem omnia & singula quae hic geruntur nosse; sed ea saltem omnia quae ad ipsorum beatitudinem pertinent & faciunt. Ad Sanctorum autem Beatitudinem facere existimant, ut noscant cultum qui illis exhibetur, & preces ac orationes, quibus fideles in terris degentes ad eorum opem confugiunt. Ac proinde apud istos Theologos certum est, Sanctos defunctos viventium preces percipere & intelligere.

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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