Living ruled by Angels and blessed human spirits—Costerus: Saints as administrators of God’s goods
Roman school: Angels and blessed human spirits both rule the living.
Costerus: reigning Saints administer earthly goods—compel the impious, rescue the pious—matching angelic wonders.
Latin
XLVIII. Praeterea statuunt Doctores Scholae Romanae, non solum ab Angelis, sed etiam a spiritibus beatorum hominum, regi & gubernari fideles viventes. Quod pluribus probare contendit Bellarminus de Sanctorum Beatitudine lib. 1. cap. 18. Similiter Costerus constare putat ex Scripturis Sanctos in caelo regnantes cum Christo haec terrena curare & administrare. Dari, scilicet, Sanctis authoritatem impios cogendi, cohibendi, puniendi, & pios ex ipsorum manibus eripiendi. Item eos esse bonorum Dei administratores. Addit Sanctos posse beneficio gloriae suae quicquid Reges potestate, quicquid opulenti divitiis, quicquid docti sapientia unquam praestare valeant. Si ergo Reges, inquit, exercitus hostiles profligant, divites egenis subveniunt, Medici arte curant; id praestare poterunt Sancti non minus, quam id praestiterunt Angeli, quorum unus 185. millia una nocte prostravit, alius Tobiae lumen reddidit, pecuniam a Gabello tulit, & nuptiis filii parentum pauperiem totamque familiam ditavit, tertius Petrum carcere liberavit, &c. In Enchiridio controversiarum cap. 12. in explicatione propositionis quartae.
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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