Others reject mode two and allow modes one and three—image loved per se as a means for the end

Opposite party: drop mode two’s single total object; keep modes one and three.

Image may be the per-se terminus, yet only because of the exemplar—like loving a means for an end.

Latin

VIII. Contra vero nonnulli sunt qui rejiciunt secundum illum adorandi modum, in quo uno & eodem adorationis actu, exemplar & imago simul, tanquam unum objectum totale adorantur; sed putant imagines posse & debere coli, non tantum primo, verum tertio quoque modo: ita ut adoratio dirigatur ad solam imaginem, tanquam rem per se adoratam; exemplar autem non nisi indirecte respiciat, nempe, ut illud propter quod imago adoratur: quanquam enim imago in se & per se adorari debeat, non tamen illam adorari, nisi propter exemplar: quemadmodum medium per se, & in se amatur, quanquam non nisi propter finem ametur.

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)
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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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