Eternal and immutable — no flux of perfection with time
Not only perpetual duration — the same remains; ages add/take nothing.
Creatures flux or at least take new acts/accidents.
God: no change — every perfection already in act, never was not.
Latin
XI. Divinae vero naturae praestantia non elucet tantum in perpetua & omnino necessaria illius duratione, sed in eo praeterea quod eadem perpetuo manet, nec saecula praeterlabentia quicquam ei addunt aut detrahunt. Siquidem Deus non solum aeternus est, sed etiam immutabilis. Res pleraeque non tantum durationem habent brevibus admodum terminis circumscriptam, sed etiam quandiu durant sunt in perpetuo fluxu: nam de earum substantia jugiter aliquid effluit, & aliquid ei de novo accedit, donec tandem penitus intereant & dissolvantur, ut videre est in plantis atque animalibus. Quod si quaedam substantia ita firma sit ut eadem perpetuo maneat, saltem novos actus & nova accidentia suscipere potest, & hactenus est variis mutationibus subdita: at Deus est omnis omnino mutationis expers, nullam perfectionem cum tempore amittit, nec ulla ei de novo accedit, sed quaecunque perfectio in eo unquam fuit, ea jam actu perseverat ac incessanter perseverabit, & quaecunque in eo unquam erit ea jam actu est, & nunquam non fuit.
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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