Theological Theses · §1443

Protestant ground: Decalogue Non facies tibi sculptile—no likeness of heavenly or earthly things to be adored

The engine is the Decalogue ban on making and adoring any likeness of heaven, earth, or waters.

Christ’s and the saints’ images are exactly such heavenly likenesses—so the precept strips them of cult.

Latin

XIII. Porro quod Protestantes movet ut sic sentiant expressum est Dei mandatum Decalogo contentum, & saepius in Sacra Scriptura repetitum. Non facies tibi sculptile, neque omnem similitudinem eorum quae sunt in coelo desuper, & quae in terra deorsum, nec eorum quae sunt in aquis, sub terra. Non adorabis ea neque coles. Ubi cum Deus simpliciter vetet ne similitudinem ullam eorum quae sunt in coelo, vel in terra, vel sub terra, adoremus & colamus, inde merito colligunt, imagines Dei, vel Christi, vel Sanctorum in coelis regnantium, nulla adoratione, vel cultu prosequendas esse, ut nec ullas omnino alias; quandoquidem imagines tum Christi, tum Sanctorum, sunt de numero similitudinum, quibus repraesentantur ea quae sunt in coelo, quibus Dei lex omnem cultum abrogat.

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

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