Feasts, sacred houses, gifts, oaths, vows, and prayers for grace are as divine as sacrifice
Feasts, sacred buildings, dedicated gifts, oaths, vows, and prayers for bodily goods and especially for grace and glory count, for the Reformed, as signs of God's own cult, no less than sacrifice.
Rome itself would not excuse sacrifice to a creature by calling it relative, or offered to God's friend so as to be referred at last to God.
The same plea does not excuse dedicating churches, offering gifts, vowing, swearing, or asking grace and glory of a creature.
Latin
XXIV. Caeterum ad actus & signa cultus Deo proprii, Theologi Reformati plurima pertinere putant, non minus quam sacrificia. Qualia sunt, secundum eorum sententiam, dies festi, aedes sacrae, & donaria in aedibus sacris dicata & appensa, juramenta, vota, & preces, quibus bona corporis & animae, ac praesertim dona gratiae & gloriae, ab aliquo poscimus. Proinde quemadmodum, Scholae Romanae judicio, Latriam creaturae deferre censeretur, qui sub quocunque praetextu illi sacrificaret, nec excusaretur dicendo, se creaturae cuipiam sacrificium offerre, non absolute, sed relative, nec tanquam Deo ipsi, sed tanquam amico cuidam & ministro ipsius Dei, ad quem tandem honor ille sacrificii, ex ejus intentione, sit ultimo referendus: sic quoque, juxta Reformatos, a crimine divini cultus creaturis oblati non purgatur ille qui creaturis ullis aedes sacras dicat, donaria offert, illis vota facit, & per eas jurat, ab iisque petit gratiam & gloriam, quantumlibet profiteatur se illa creaturis praestare atque exhibere, aliter quam ipsi Deo, & sic ut velit ista ad Dei cultum & gloriam referre.
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.