Theological Theses · §625

Motives to receive the word are only moral arguments

Word-as-God’s not mathematically/logically demonstrable.

Motives are moral arguments → only moral certainty of themselves.

Spirit-illumined ‘seeing’ still = moral evidence, not level of scientific knowledge.

Latin

XXVII. Cum autem, ut ante dictum est, hanc esse divinam revelationem, & illud esse Dei verbum, res non sit mathematice, seu logice demonstrabilis, incitamenta & media illa, quae nos movent ad Dei verbum ut tale suscipiendum, non possunt esse plusquam argumenta moralia, quae non mathematice, sed moraliter evidens faciunt menti bene affectae quod proponitur tanquam Dei verbum, & doctrina coelestis, revera in se tale esse. Adeoque argumenta illa non possunt ex se menti ingenerare, nisi certitudinem illam, quam moralem diximus, & quae ex suo genere inferior est illa certitudine, qua principiis per se notis, & conclusionibus inde evidenter deductis assentimur. Etenim, licet homo cujus mens intus Dei Spiritu illustrata, & qui ad notas & varia τεκμήρια verbi Dei debite attendit, judicet & videat impossibile esse ut ab alio quam a Deo prodierit, probationes tamen inde deductae, quibus impellitur ad ita judicandum, non nisi morales sunt, & quod istud videre dicitur non de alia quam de morali evidentia intelligi debet.

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

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