Three excellences, three cults: latria for God, civil honor for natural dignity, dulia for supernatural grace and glory
Cult species track excellence species—three for this debate.
Latria answers infinite divine excellence; civil observance answers natural human dignity.
Dulia answers the mid-rank supernatural grace and glory of the Saints.
Latin
II. Secundo observant tot esse species cultus, sive honoris, quot sunt species excellentiae: quoniam honor, sive cultus debetur personae propter excellentiam. Sed quod ad praesens institutum attinet, tres esse species excellentiae. Prima est excellentia divina & infinita, cui respondet prima species cultus, quae ab Ecclesiae Romanae Theologis Latria dicitur. Secunda est excellentia humana, seu naturalis, quae posita est in humanis virtutibus, dignitatibus, gradibus, &c. Cui respondet secunda species cultus, quae dici potest cultus civilis, & observantia quaedam humana. Tertia est excellentia quaedam media inter divinam & humanam, qualis est gratia & gloria Sanctorum, quae dona sunt supernaturalia; & huic respondet tertia species cultus, quae in Schola Romana Dulia appellatur.
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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