Reformers do not deny all honor to Saints; greater excellence deserves greater honor

Rome often says the Reformed refuse the Saints every kind of honor.

Le Blanc answers that they unanimously say the opposite.

Created excellence, as well as divine excellence, is owed its own honor.

Grace and glory outrank civil rank and natural gifts, and the honor should rise with them.

Latin

X. Quod spectat autem Theologos Ecclesiae Reformatae, solent illis imputare Scholae Romanae Doctores, quod Sanctis omnem cultum & honorem denegent, & simpliciter doceant Sanctos non esse colendos. Verum ab eo multum absunt, & contrarium omnes unanimiter profitentur. Concedunt enim non tantum divinae, sed etiam creatae excellentiae cultum & honorem suum deberi: atque etiam quo major est excellentia gratiae & gloriae quam Sanctis Deus communicat omni civili dignitate, omnibusque naturae donis & privilegiis, eo etiam majori honore & observantia colendam illam & prosequendam esse.

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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