Infinite power and wisdom prove infinite essence
Scripture gives God infinite power and infinite wisdom.
Attributes = essence (simplicity) — so essence is infinite too.
Finite subject cannot hold infinite power/wisdom; what can do all things has no bound.
Latin
XXVI. Et certe ista essentiae divinae infinitas inde satis probatur, quod Scriptura Deo tribuit potentiam infinitam, & sapientiam quoque infinitam. Nam essentia Dei & attributa divina sunt plane unum & idem, sicuti patet ex summa Dei simplicitate, quae ante probata & demonstrata fuit. Ideoque si attributa Dei infinita sunt, etiam essentiam infinitam esse necesse est. Praeterquam quod subjectum finitum non esset capax potentiae & sapientiae infinitae. Nam inter subjectum, & id quod est in subjecto proportio quaedam requiritur. Quod autem, juxta Scripturam, potentia Dei plane infinita sit, inde manifestum est, quod expresse Scriptura docet Deum omnia posse, & ipsi rem omnino nullam esse impossibilem. Nam potentia illa demum finita dici potest, quae huc usque potest extendi, & non ultra, adeoque cui est aliquid impossibile. Qui vero simpliciter & absolute omnia potest, illius potentia nullum terminum habet extra quem extendi non possit, sed omni fine & termino caret. Et similiter sane de intelligentia & sapientia divina dicitur, quod illius non sit numerus nec investigatio: quibus verbis, ut patet, res infinita describitur.
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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