Blind necessary cause cannot birth knowers — Psalm 94
A brute necessary cause cannot explain knowers.
Knowing effects require a knowing first cause.
Psalm 94: He who planted the ear — shall He not hear?
Latin
XXXIV. Nec etiam potest tantum opus tribui causae brutae, & quae agat ex necessitate, absque ratione & intelligentia. Primo enim inter ea quae in mundo videntur, multa sunt, non tantum sensu & cognitione praedita, veluti bestiae: sed etiam ratione & intellectu, sicuti homines; sed id quod cognoscit & intelligit, necessario causam aliquam habet cognoscentem & intelligentem: nam effectus sua causa prima & praecipua perfectior esse non potest: nec potest in effectu quicquam perfectionis esse, quod in causa non sit, si non formaliter, saltem modo quodam eminentiori, ut ante demonstratum fuit. Jam autem simpliciter & absolute perfectius est cognoscere, quam non cognoscere, intelligere, quam non intelligere. Ideoque necesse est, ut quod est prima & praecipua causa rei intelligentis, non sit expers intelligentiae, alioqui causa esset effectu minus perfecta. Atque haec est demonstratio, qua utitur Psaltes Psal. 94. dum homines atheos & profanos coarguit. Intelligite, inquit, stupidi in populo & fatui, quando intelligetis? An qui plantavit aurem, non audiet? an qui oculum finxit, non videbit? An qui gentes corripit, non arguet? An qui docet homines scientiam, non cognoscet?
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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