Another Pontifical prayer asks the Father to make the held cross-sign a saving remedy and shield—implying God-given virtue in the material cross
A second Pontifical prayer asks the Father to make the held cross a saving remedy and shield.
If the prayer is trusted, the material cross must be thought to receive real virtue from God—Trent’s denial notwithstanding.
Latin
XXVII. Ibidem est oratio ad Deum Patrem directa, in qua ab ipso petit Episcopus, ut signum crucis quod prae manibus habet, sit remedium salutare generi humano, & protectio ac tutela contra jacula inimicorum. Oratio his terminis concepta est, Rogamus te Domine sancte, Pater omnipotens, sempiterne Deus, ut digneris benedicere hoc signum crucis tuae, ut sit remedium salutare generi humano; sit soliditas fidei; perfectio bonorum operum; redemptio animarum; sit solamen & protectio ac tutela contra saeva jacula inimicorum, &c. Quam orationem qui ad Deum habent, si fidant se exaudiri, necesse est ut credant, istam lapideam, vel metallicam crucem exinde a Deo habere virtutem, per quam hominibus procurare possit varias benedictiones, tum temporales, tum spirituales, contra quam definit Synodus Tridentina. Nam alioqui quomodo dici posset, illam factam fuisse, ut petit oratio, remedium humano generi salutare, & tutelam contra saeva inimicorum jacula?
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)
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