Deos alienos & conflatiles: unauthorized Jehovah-images still count as alien gods because God never willed that mode

Prophetic Deos alienos still fits relative Jehovah-calves: God never authorized that mode.

Human-invented image-cult of the true God is as offensive as foreign-god cult.

Latin

XXXVI. Sed majori cum specie opponi potest quod Deus Jeroboamo per prophetam exprobrat, fecisti tibi Deos alienos & conflatiles, ut me ad iracundiam provocares. Verum si Jeroboam, ut supra ostensum, non alium Deum in vitulis colebat, quam Jehovam, quomodo dicuntur ei facti dii alieni? Respondetur, imagines istas, quamvis ad veri Dei cultum fabricatae fuerint, nihilominus jure optimo Deos alienos appellari, quia Deus eas non agnoverat, nec unquam voluerat eo modo coli; ac proinde cultus ille, qui imaginibus illis deferebatur, non erat cultus a Deo institutus, sed ab hominibus inventus, & Deo perinde ingratus ac si alienis numinibus exhibitus fuisset.

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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