To suppose the Saints see all men and hear all thoughts is to give them something divine
If the Saints in glory are supposed to see everyone everywhere at once, hear their prayers, know their thoughts, give the help asked, and notice everything done in their honor, something divine has been given them.
The signs of honor in question then cease to be human cult and become divine cult.
Latin
XXXIV. Quod si quis supponat Sanctos in caelo cum Christo regnantes, posse simul omnes homines, in quacunque mundi parte positos, intueri, eorumque preces audire, & cogitationes nosse, atque etiam opem quam ab ipsis postulant ferre, & quaecunque fiunt in eorum honorem percipere atque agnoscere: hoc ipso putant Sanctis divinum quid tribui, & ea de quibus jam agimus honoris signa, non amplius ad humanum, sed ad divinum cultum pertinere.
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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