Bowing and kneeling suit the present, not a Saint in America or China, still less one in heaven
Greeting, uncovering the head, and bowing are used toward holy people we actually live with, and only when they are present.
It would be absurd to bow or kneel in France, at home or in church, to honor a holy man traveling in the Americas or in China.
Saints reigning with Christ are as far from us as heaven from earth, so those signs toward them are held contrary to reason.
Latin
XXXI. Sic viros sanctos quibuscum versamur officiose salutamus, caput illis aperimus, & corpus inclinamus: sed talibus honoris signis uti solemus tantum erga praesentes. Et absurdum esset, si quis in honorem hominis Sancti, apud Americanos, aut Sinenses peregrinantis, hic in Gallia domi suae, vel in loco sacro, corpus inclinaret, aut genua flecteret. Ideoque cum Sancti in caelo cum Christo regnantes tantum a nobis absint, quantum a terra caelum, a ratione putant omnino alienum esse, ut honoris ejusmodi signa erga illos adhibeamus.
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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