Vows to Saints are common; Thomas’s escape: the Saint-promise is vow-matter, the God-promise is the formal vow
Saint-vows (especially Marian) are everyday Roman praxis—yet vows are latria-acts.
Thomas’s patch: the Saint gets promise-matter; God alone gets the formal vow (tacitly guaranteeing fulfillment).
Latin
XXVIII. Ad cultum quoque Sanctorum pertinere volunt Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae vota quae illis nuncupantur. In ea enim Ecclesia, valde usitatum est, nuncupare vota Sanctis, ac praesertim Beatae Virgini, quod licite fieri Doctores illius pertendunt. Verum cum Theologi votum ponant inter actus religionis soli Deo debitos, inde nascitur difficultas, quomodo ergo Sanctis vota fieri possint absque Idololatria. Ad hoc juxta doctrinam Thomae respondendum est, vota proprie Sanctis non fieri. Nam vota quae Sanctis fieri dicuntur includere duas promissiones: Unam quae fit Sanctis, & illam non esse formaliter votum, sed materiam voti: alteram vero quae Deo fit, & vere est votum. Nempe qui Virgini aliquid promittit, & tacite promittit Deo, se impleturum promissionem Virgini factam, & haec secunda promissio est vere votum.
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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