Marian dominion is real power: she dispenses all grace—Salazar, Lapide, Pelbart as treasurer of divine gifts
Marian dominion is real power, not an empty title—she dispenses God’s grace to all.
Salazar: every grace-flow via Mary as moon; Lapide: treasurer of divine graces; Pelbart: no Spirit-gift without her dispensation.
Latin
LXIX. Porro Dominium istud quod Virgini tribuunt, juxta ipsorum doctrinam, non est nomen inane, aut solum titulus quidam honorarius, sed vera & realis potestas, quam multis modis erga genus humanum, exercere censetur. Etenim illam esse dicunt quae Dei gratiam & dona varia caeteris omnibus dispensat. Ita Jesuita Salazar affirmat omnem gratiae & auxilii defluxum, media Virgine, ceu luna, ad nos deportari: & cuncta bona spiritualia in potestate Virginis & arbitrio esse. Imo, si fides illi habenda est, Fideles, quamdiu agunt in mundo, utero suo bajulat Virgo, qui nihil boni spiritus seu inspirationis hauriunt quod non illis inspiret Maria. Liceat sic dicere Omnes Mariae filii sunt. Conforme est quod dicit Cornelius de Lapide illam esse gratiarum divinarum thesaurariam. Et Christum in ea totius boni plenitudinem posuisse, eo quod nihil Dominus nos habere voluit, quod per ejus manus non transiret. Similia docet Pelbartus, nimirum Mariam esse dispensatricem omnis gratiae, illamque jurisdictionem & authoritatem obtinuisse in omni processione temporali Spiritus Sancti: ita quod nulla creatura aliquam gratiam, vel virtutem Spiritus Sancti obtinuit nisi secundum ipsius dispensationem. Adeoque, si ipsi creditur, Omnia dona, omnes virtutes & gratiae, & omnia bona, quibus vult, quando vult, quomodo vult, & quantum vult, per manus ipsius administrantur.
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.