Reason: what God grants by prayer is not done by Saintly command—authors treat Saints as sub-God givers (Costerus)
Reason: God’s gifts answered by prayer are not done by a Saint’s command.
Hymn authors treat Saints as under-God givers and administrators—Costerus: ask them both to intercede and to help.
His Ave Maris Stella gloss: loose by prayers, merits, authority, empire.
Latin
LX. Certe ratio non patitur, ut quae precibus a Deo impetramus, ea dicamus facere jussu, potestate, praecepto. Ac proinde precum illarum authores aliud sibi voluisse videntur, quam ut simpliciter a Sanctis peterent, ut bona quae ipsos rogabant, precibus suis a Deo impetrarent; ac videntur Sanctos habuisse, non tantum pro suis apud Deum intercessoribus, sed etiam pro bonorum illorum, sub Deo, largitoribus, ac administratoribus; quales etiam Costerus, loco supra citato, testatur illos se existimare, asserens Sanctos esse administratores bonorum Dei. Unde postea concludit, Sanctos esse rogandos, tum ut pro nobis apud Deum intercedant, tum ut ipsi nobis opitulentur. Enchirid. cap. 12. in expositione quintae propositionis. Juxta quod idem Costerus scribens in hymnum, Ave Maris Stella, in verba istius hymni, solve vincla reis, hac utitur glossa, Solve precibus, solve meritis, solve authoritate, solve imperio. Externa omnia vincula solo nutu & voluntate removere potes. Et alia ejusdem hymni verba Mala nostra pelle, explicans: Mala igitur, inquit, nostra pelle oratione, meritis, potestate.
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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