So the world has a beginning — made by the eternal mind we call God
Motion and time need a start — so the moving timed world does too.
Therefore the world was made by another.
Author: highest eternal mind — what all call God.
Latin
XXX. Quum igitur nec motus nec tempus ab aeterno esse potuerint, sed necessario sui quoddam initium habeant: manifestum est mundum, qui, ut diximus, est in perpetuo motu, & cujus duratio tempore mensuratur, ab aeterno quoque esse non potuisse, sed aliquod sui initium habere; ac proinde illum ab alio factum esse & productum. Quis autem tanti operis author censeri poterit, nisi causa quaedam non tantum potentissima, sed etiam optima & sapientissima, adeoque nisi summa & aeterna quaedam mens, quae ab omnibus Dei nomine significatur?
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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