Immediate earth-operation proves substantial presence on earth
Immediate earth-acts prove substance on earth as in heaven.
Creation, conservation, miracles: no instruments — He acts through Himself.
Acts 17: not far away in a heavenly box outside which He is not.
Latin
XVII. Sed praeterea, quod Deus in terra sit secundum substantiam non minus quam in caelo, inde patet quod in terra immediate operatur. Nam non minus est impossibile, ut quis immediate efficiat aliquid ubi non est, quam quum non est. Deum autem agere immediate in terra manifestum est ex terrae creatione, & conservatione: tum ex miraculis in terra editis. Nam creatio & conservatio, & miraculorum etiam patratio sunt actiones Dei immediatae, in quibus Deus nullis utitur instrumentis, sed per seipsum immediate agit. Ideoque Apostolus Actor. 17. ex perpetua illa rerum conservatione & sustentatione, ratione cujus dicimur in Deo vivere, moveri, & esse, colligit Deum non esse longe ab unoquoque nostrum: adeoque non procul a nobis in caelo versari, tanquam in habitaculo quodam extra quod non sit.
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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