Bellarmino/Perron: no asking Saints as authors of grace—absolute prayer to God alone; relative ‘pray for us’ to Saints
Bellarmino: never ask Saints as authors of glory or grace—only that they obtain from God.
Perron: absolute prayer (author of goods) for God alone; relative prayer (‘pray for us’) for Saints.
Latin
LII. Similiter haec est assertio Bellarmini, Non licet a Sanctis petere, ut nobis tanquam authores divinorum beneficiorum, gloriam, vel gratiam aliaque ad beatitudinem media concedant. Adeoque, juxta ipsum, nihil debemus a Sanctis petere, nisi ut a Deo impetrent quae nobis utilia sunt. De Sanct. beatitudine lib. 1. cap. 17. Cardinalis Perronius Priorem invocationem, qua aliquis invocatur, ut ipse bonorum author: orationem absolutam vocat: Posteriorem, qua aliquis rogatur, ut pro nobis oret, orationem relativam, quae scilicet, non in ipso, sed in Deo terminatur. Et priorem illam quoque soli Deo reservandam, sola vero posteriori apud Sanctos utendum docet. Adversus Regis Magnae Britanniae responsum lib. 5. cap. 1.
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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