Saints invoked as intercessors, yet often with the same formulas used toward God
Roman doctors say Saints are asked to obtain goods from God, not to be the authors who give them.
In practice people still ask Saints outright for every bodily and spiritual good.
They use the same prayer-forms as toward God, and explain the difference as a difference of sense.
Latin
IX. Profiteri tamen Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae Sanctos invocandos esse, non ut ipsi dent bona quibus egemus, quasi eorum essent authores atque largitores, sed ut illa a Deo precibus & meritis suis nobis impetrent. Quod non obstat quominus saepe bona quaecunque corporis & animae simpliciter a Sanctis postulent, & apud Sanctos utantur iisdem precandi formulis, quibus utuntur apud Deum; etsi dicant alio sensu se illas ad Sanctos quam ad Deum dirigere.
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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