The name may be civil, after Augustine, taken from the heavenly city rather than the earthly

What the honor is called matters less to them than what it consists in and how it is shown.

They refuse the bare name religious, because religion properly looks only to God's cult.

They prefer civil, or Augustine's phrase, a cult of fellowship and love.

Civil here is taken from the heavenly city of grace and glory, and it still outranks earthly civic respect in degree.

Latin

XII. Quo vero nomine sit honor iste signandus, parum referre existimant; dummodo de re ipsa constet, quibus, scilicet, in rebus ille constituendus sit, & quibus actibus & signis testandus atque exhibendus. Nolunt tamen simpliciter Religiosum dici, quoniam religio solum cultum divinum proprie & directe spectat; sed potius civilem, vel ut loquitur Augustinus, societatis & dilectionis. Non quod eum confundant cum illo cultu quem civilis dignitas, & naturae quaedam praestantia requirit: hunc enim, ut dictum, gradu saltem superat. Sed cum duplex sit civitas, una terrena, & altera caelestis, civilem dici posse putant denominatione sumpta, non a civitate terrena, sed caelesti, ad quam pertinet gratia & gloria, cui cultus & honor ille deferendus est.

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

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Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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