Essence through lower places does not pollute God — only sin is filth before Him
No fear: essence in low places does not soil God.
Spirit — untouchable by body; infinite gap — receives nothing from creatures.
Creaturely filth is relative to us; before God only sin is spiritual uncleanness.
Latin
XXX. Neque metuendum est ne Deus locorum sordibus inquinetur. Et ne, si ejus essentia per haec inferiora & terrena diffusa sit, ubi tam multa polluta & sordida occurrunt, inde pollutionem & immunditiem aliquam contrahat. Nam cum Deus sit spiritus a corpore tangi non potest. Et cum infinito naturae intervallo creaturam omnem superet, a creatura non potest quicquam recipere, vel pati. Deinde verum est quidem quaedam corporaliter immunda & sordida esse respectu nostri, vel alterius creaturae, cujus naturam offendunt, corrumpunt, aut vitiant. Sed respectu Dei nulla res sordida aut polluta est. Solum vero peccatum, quod non est res, sed rei vitium, & defectus, quodque Deus nec facit, nec contingit, spiritualis immunditia est, & abominatio coram Deo.
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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