Every creaturely perfection is somehow in God — as in the fountain
No creaturely perfection missing from God — formal or eminent.
He is first cause: all perfection flows from Him and preexists in Him.
Excellence resides in God as in a fountain.
Latin
XVI. Ex his ergo manifestum est nullam in ulla re esse perfectionem quae in Deo quodammodo non sit: nempe, formaliter, ut perfectiones illae quae simpliciter simplices dicuntur: vel eminenter & virtute, ut aliae quae vocantur perfectiones secundum quid. Et hoc quia Deus est rerum omnium prima & praecipua causa. Unde sequitur quicquid perfectionis est in rebus ab ipso promanare, adeoque in eo, ut sic dicam, praeexistere: nec ullam omnino posse dari excellentiam, quae ab ipso non derivetur, adeoque quae non in ipso, tanquam in fonte resideat. Quod enim ab alio derivatur & manat, non potest non esse quodam modo in eo unde manat & derivatur.
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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