Divine cult is whatever cannot truly suit a creature, even if the worshiper denies he takes the object for God

Whatever Scripture counts as divine worship is first stripped away from honor of the blessed.

A cult is divine even if the worshiper does not consciously take its object for the supreme God, the first principle and last end.

It is enough that the act cannot really suit a creature, because it assumes something divine in that creature.

The worshiper's mistaken explanation does not change the nature of the act.

Latin

XXII. Itaque ab eo cultu primo removent omnia quae, secundum Scripturae doctrinam, ad divinum cultum pertinent. Ut autem cultus pro divino habeatur non necesse est, ex eorum mente, ut qui illum exhibet, objectum quod colit habeat pro supremo Numine, a quo omnia pendeant, ipsum vero a nullo, & quod sit rerum omnium primum principium & finis ultimus: adeoque cultum suum absolute in eo terminet, nec ad alium ullum superiorem referre intendat. Sed sufficit ut cultus sit talis, qui revera creaturae convenire non possit: propterea quod quiddam divinum in ea supponit; etiamsi aliter per errorem judicet ille a quo cultus ejusmodi defertur.

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)
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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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