Imperfect-work venials: by surprise (semi-voluntary) or smallness of matter
Surprise-venials are sudden, not fully deliberate motions—still culpable if reason could have watched, yet not fully willed.
Small-matter venials are light thefts and the like that do not notably wound neighbor or friendship.
Latin
IX. Rursus vero peccata venialia ex imperfectione operis in duo membra secant. Alia enim ipsis dicuntur venialia ex subreptione; alia ex parvitate materiae. Ex subreptione venialia vocant ea quae non sunt perfecte voluntaria. Quales sunt subiti motus irae, cupiditatis, invidentiae, & alii similes, qui prius in animo existunt, quam ratio plane deliberare potuerit, essent necne admittendi. Quae quidem & peccata sunt, cum praeveniri, aut continuo repelli potuissent, si ratio vigilasset: & tamen venialia sunt, cum pleno voluntatis assensu caruerint. Ex parvitate materiae venialia vocant ea quae in re parva ac levi committuntur. Quale est furtum unius oboli; quod neque proximum notabiliter laedit, neque ejusmodi est, ut apud aequos homines amicitiam tollere queat.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.