Coster the Jesuit defends kneeling prayer before Christ’s image, adorning images, candles, and carrying statues in processions
Jesuit Coster publicly defends kneeling prayer before Christ’s image, rich adornment, saint-candles, and statue processions as commendable Church custom.
Latin
XVIII. Ista enim passim in tota Ecclesia Romana fiunt, nec diserte & publice improbantur ab ullis, qui in Ecclesia illa authoritate, doctrina & dignitate eminent, ac pro Orthodoxis habentur, sed contra a multis publice probantur, atque defenduntur. Ut, exempli gratia, a Costerio Jesuita in Enchiridio Controversiarum capite de usu & veneratione imaginum. Proinde, inquit, reprehendendi non sunt Christiani qui Christum in sua imagine flexis genibus, apertis capitibus, junctis manibus adorant & precantur, ab eoque misericordiam, auxilium & opem implorant. Neque illi qui imagines vestibus, monilibus, & id genus aliis ornare solent. Nec reprehensione digna, sed commendanda est Christianorum consuetudo, qua cereos, in honorem sanctorum, coram imaginibus accendunt. Denique Ecclesiae consuetudo circumferendi statuas & imagines in supplicationibus antiquo usu comprobata est, & merito commendanda.
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.