What is from itself needs nothing — but planets need the sun
What is from itself is self-sufficient.
Earth and planets need the sun's light and heat — they cannot stand alone.
Need of another means dependence — and conservation implies an efficient cause.
Latin
XVIII. Deinde quod est a se, est sibi ipsi sufficiens, nec ullo alio indiget. Sed corpora illa, quibus hoc universum constat, veluti terra, planetae, res hujusmodi non sunt: sed aliena ope egent, nec possunt alio carere. Minor manifesta est. Nam terra & planetae lumine solis egent. Neque globus elementaris absque sole subsistere posset: Sed omnino opus habet luce & calore illius foveri, ut in suo statu & esse permaneat. Et sic quoque proculdubio reliquae universi partes solae per se esse non possent: multisque modis ab aliis juvantur atque sustentantur. Nec vero minus evidens est, quod est a se sibi sufficere, & alio non indigere: Nam quod alio indiget, & sibi ipsi non sufficit, non potest absque alio conservari. At quod non potest absque alio conservari, ab alio pendet ut sit. Quod autem ut sit ab alio pendet, certe illud non est a se. Adde quod ens a se nullam omnino causam habet: Nam a seipso esse, est causam non habere, sed quod non potest absque alio conservari causam aliquam habet, scilicet conservantem. Ac praeterea quicquid causam conservantem habet, efficientem quoque habet. Nam conservatio est quaedam efficientiae continuatio.
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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