Reformers commonly reject the Latria–Dulia split, because one cult is properly religious and Scripture mixes the words
Reformed doctors generally reject dividing religious cult into Latria and Dulia.
Only the cult proper to God deserves the name religious in the proper and simple sense; creature-honor is religious only improperly.
Scripture also mixes the words: latreia sometimes means human service, and douleia is often kept for God's cult alone.
Latin
XVIII. Caeterum vulgatam distinctionem cultus Religiosi in Latriam & Duliam communiter improbant Scholae Reformatae Doctores. Idque duplici nomine. Et primo quidem, quoniam unicus est cultus qui proprie & simpliciter Religiosus dici mereatur: nempe, cultus qui Deo proprius est. Ille vero qui creaturis, etiam praestantissimis & sanctissimis, defertur, religiosus dici nequit, nisi improprie & aequivoce. Deinde quia in Scripturae usu saepius confunduntur Latriae & Dulia voces. Siquidem apud Graecos interpretes Veteris Testamenti λατρείαν aliquando de servitio humano usurpatur: frequenter vero δουλείαν tam in Veteri quam in Novo Testamento ad solum cultum divinum restringitur.
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)
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