A cult is divine which treats its object as present everywhere and able to hear every silent prayer at once

Divine cult, on this account, treats its object as watching every worshiper, in every place and time, though unseen.

It also treats that object as hearing countless different prayers at once, including unspoken ones, and as able to help each person in a single moment.

Calling the object only God's friend and minister does not change the act.

Majesty and power of that size belong to God alone, whatever people imagine.

Latin

XXIII. Proinde cultus ipsis divinus est, qui supponit eum qui colitur, licet ipse sit inconspectus, nec sensibus ullis expositus, nihilominus omnes ipsum colentes, quovis tempore & loco, tanquam praesentem intueri; & quamvis, vel ab innumeris, ubivis terrarum dispersis hominibus, diversissimis votis simul rogetur atque invocetur, omnium tamen vota, etiam quae sola mente concepta sunt, percipere & intelligere, & singulis quam ab ipso petunt opem, uno momento ferre posse. Etiamsi qui cultu hujusmodi utitur, illum quem ita colit profiteatur se non habere pro Deo, sed tantum pro Dei amico & ministro, in quo se summum ipsum Deum honorare cogitet: quia quicquid homines fingere & praesumere possint, revera tanta majestas & potestas nulli competit, nisi Deo.

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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