Honor rises with God's gifts; the dead are not served as masters but followed as fellow heirs
Rivet has observance rise with the gifts God gave, and praise is proportioned, not flattened.
Servitude properly so called is not given to anyone who does not need our work and cannot be served by it.
The dead Saints are not our masters; we are to share their inheritance and follow their steps.
What they most wanted, by imitating Christ, was that we should imitate them.
Pars Secunda is not closed: thesis XLI takes up the honor of the Virgin in particular.
Latin
XL. Postea vero monet, pro ratione donorum Dei in talibus, & excellentiae majoris vel minoris, nos etiam augere observantiae & venerationis gradus: & laudes iis debitas non aequare, sed cuique pro ea quam in eo agnoscimus mensura, tribuere quod suum est. Neminem vero qui opera nostra non habet opus, & cui non potest usui esse, nos colere servitute proprie dicta. Nec enim nos Sanctorum qui obierunt servos esse, sed ejusdem haereditatis consortes futuros, eorumque vestigia, quantum possumus, etiam premere: quod maxime voluerunt, dum in terris versantes, exemplo praeiverunt, Christum imitando, ut eos imitaremur.
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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