Sum of the Roman doctrine: a middle cult between divine majesty and merely civil honor

Le Blanc opens Pars Secunda by compressing the Roman account he has already given.

Rome, on that account, assigns angels and canonized people a middle honor.

That honor sits above civic respect for outstanding neighbors and below the worship God's majesty requires.

The lower comparison is with rank, power, and natural gifts, not with anything beyond nature.

Latin

I. Thesibus superioribus, quam breviter & dilucide a nobis fieri potuit, exposuimus doctrinam Ecclesiae & Scholae Romanae, circa Angelorum & hominum Sanctorum cultum & venerationem. Eorum autem quae paulo fusius a nobis dicta sunt haec summa est. Ecclesiam Romanam Angelis & hominibus Sanctis cultum aliquem deferre, qui medius est inter eum quem Dei Majestas exigit, & eum qui debetur illis, qui inter homines caeteros eminent, vel dignitate ac potestate civili, vel donis, virtute, ac praestantia quadam, quae tamen ordinem naturae non excedunt.

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)
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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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