Chamier: formally civil even when the cause is supernatural glory

Chamier splits civil cult into what it is in itself and what causes it.

A cult can be formally civil even when its cause is supernatural.

Honor of the Saints reigning with Christ is of that sort: not causally civil, because their dignity is supernatural, yet wholly distinct from religious cult, and so formally civil.

He allows the alternative name officiosus, dutiful.

Latin

XV. Paulo aliter vero ea de re philosophatur Daniel Chamierus. Nam observat civilem cultum dupliciter intelligi posse: vel formaliter, vel causaliter. Civilis cultus formaliter ipsi est, ille qui in se revera civilis est, & distinctus, imo separatus a religioso. Civilis cultus causaliter, quicunque tandem in seipso sit, est tamen a causis mere civilibus. Cum alioqui cultus formaliter civilis possit esse a causis non civilibus, sed supernaturalibus. Et talis est, ex ejus mente, honor qui Sanctis cum Christo regnantibus debetur. Quamvis enim eorum dignitas sit supernaturalis, ideoque cultus qui illis debetur non sit causaliter civilis, est tamen omnino distinctus a cultu Religioso, ac proinde formaliter civilis: nisi quis malit eum officiosum dicere. Panstratia tom. 2. lib. 19. cap. 5. num. 2. & 3.

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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