Could create infinite worlds — so not shut in this one
He made this world from nothing — could make endless others.
He would be absent from none; no reason to pick only this box.
Shut inside this world → cannot immediately create another outside it.
Latin
XXII. Et certe, quandoquidem Deus pro sua voluntate mundum hunc e nihilo creavit, negari non potest illum pari facultate posse, si liberet, plures alios mundos creare in infinitum, & sine certo numero. A quorum tamen nullo abesse putandus esset. Nec daretur ulla ratio cur esset in hoc, non vero in alio. Praeterquam quod si Deus hoc mundo includitur, nec est extra hunc mundum, qui posset extra hunc mundum operari, & alium mundum creare? cum ad productionem ex nihilo requiratur actio immediata: inde ergo sequitur Dei magnitudinem non habere finem & terminum ullum, nec ut caelo conclusa 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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