Axiom: every creaturely excellence is somehow in God — simply simple perfections
Axiom: every creaturely excellence is somehow in God.
Two kinds: first, simply simple — better to have than lack.
Life, intellect, free will — no greater perfection bars them.
Latin
VII. Itaque arte tenendum est, & tanquam firmum certumque axioma, nullam omnino praestantiam & excellentiam in creatura ulla reperiri, quae in Deo non sit aliquo saltem modo. Sed ad pleniorem hujus rei intelligentiam notandum est duo esse perfectionum genera. Sunt enim perfectiones quaedam simpliciter tales, id est, quas, absolute loquendo, praestat habere, quam non habere, & quae nullam majorem perfectionem excludunt. Has Scholastici vocant perfectiones simpliciter simplices. Atque hujusmodi perfectiones sunt vita, intellectus, voluntatis libertas. Nam absolute loquendo, praestat vivere, quam non vivere, intelligere quam non intelligere, & praeditum esse libera voluntate, quam non esse praeditum. Nec ulla est perfectio quantumvis magna, quae cum vita, intellectu & libera voluntate consistere non possit.
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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