No sacrifice to a creature, yet Masses in Saints' honor that commend the offering by their merits

Rome refuses a sacrifice properly so called to any creature.

It still honors saints by offering sacrifice to God in their name.

The Mass does more than give thanks: the saint is invoked, and Christ's body and blood, as they hold it, is commended to God by that saint's merits and prayers.

The secret prayers of Andrew and James are cited as the working formulas.

Latin

V. Nec enim licitum putant sacrificium proprie sic dictum ulli creaturae offerre, quanquam apud ipsos valde usitatum sit sanctos colere atque honorare sacrificiis Deo in eorum honorem oblatis. Idque non tantum ea ratione, ut gratiae Deo agantur pro gratia & gloria in ipsos a Deo collata; sed sic etiam, ut ipsi in Liturgia solemni invocentur, & per eorum preces ac merita divinum imploretur auxilium, & quod magis est, ut ipsum quod offertur sacrificium corporis & sanguinis Christi, ut existimant, per eorum merita & preces Deo commendetur. Veluti quum in Missa Sancti Andreae dicunt, Sacrificium nostrum tibi, Domine, quaesumus, Beati Andreae Apostoli precatio sancta conciliet: ut in cujus honore solemniter exhibetur, ejus meritis efficiatur acceptum. Et in Missa Sancti Jacobi, Oblationes populi tui quaesumus, Domine, Beati Jacobi Apostoli passio sacra conciliet.

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).

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