How Saints hear living prayers—opinions vary; Costerus: by angels, migrants, and divine revelation for their glory

How Saints hear the living’s prayers is unsettled among Roman doctors.

Costerus: heaven knows earthly deeds by angel messengers and by the newly departed—and especially by revelation of what advances the Saints’ glory.

God hides from them nothing that can heighten that joy; living prayers and glory-works belong to that class.

Latin

XLI. Quomodo vero Sancti orationes viventium audiant atque percipiant, res non est inter eos certa & definita, sed de qua varii varie opinantur. Costerus in Enchiridio dicit dubium non esse, quin Sancti in coelis cognoscant, quae in terris gerimus internunciis Angelis, & iis qui ex hac vita migrant: praesertim vero quin divina revelatione ipsis innotescant quae ad ipsorum gloriam promovendam ab hominibus fiunt. Deus enim qui Sanctorum suorum perfectum gaudium desiderat, nihil eorum ipsos celare, quae aliquo modo vel augere id, vel perficere possunt: Ejusmodi vero esse orationes, quae ad ipsos a viventibus effunduntur, & quaecunque in ipsorum gloriam ab iisdem suscipiuntur.

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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