Vazquez’s sacrifice exception (protestation of omnipotence) would ban every relative latria-act toward images
Vazquez fences sacrifice off because it protests omnipotence and dominion.
But every latria-act protests some uncreated excellence—so the fence would outlaw all relative image-latria, not sacrifice alone.
Latin
XLIII. Vazquez quidem, cum aliis Scholasticis, rationem aliquam affert, cur imagines sacrificiis coli, ne quidem per accidens, aut relative possint; nempe, quia in sacrificiis Protestatio quaedam est divinae omnipotentiae & dominationis. Verum si haec ratio bona est, ut revera est, inde quoque sequitur reliquos Latriae actus, ne quidem relative sive concomitanter, imaginibus exhiberi posse. Nec enim ullus Latriae actus est, in quo non includatur agnitio & Protestatio virtutis cujusdam & excellentiae divinae, absque quo Latriae actus dici non posset. In hoc enim, juxta Scholae Romanae usum, Latria differt a Dulia, Quod Dulia sit honor qui debetur excellentiae creatae; Latria vero honor qui debetur excellentiae increatae. Quod si agnitio divinae alicujus excellentiae, quae est in caeteris Latriae actibus, non obstat quin imaginibus relative exhiberi possint, cur obstabit, quae est in sacrificiis, Omnipotentiae & Dominationis divinae protestatio?
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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