Swearing by Saints is as forbidden as sacrificing to them
Swearing by the Saints is rejected outright.
An oath by any creature is as forbidden as a sacrifice to that creature, because Scripture condemns both swearing by what is not God and sacrificing to any but God.
A secondary oath, on the ground that divine truth shines in the Saints, has no more excuse than a secondary sacrifice on the ground that God's power and goodness appear in them.
Latin
XXVII. Similiter omnino improbant consuetudinem jurandi per Sanctos, nec minus vetitum censent per creaturas quaslibet jurare, quam illis sacrificare, quoniam Scriptura non minus illos damnat, qui jurant per eos qui Dii non sunt, quam illos qui offerunt sacrificium praeterquam Deo soli. Nec plus rationis vident ut secundario juretur per Sanctos, quatenus in iis elucet divina veritas, quam ut iis secundario quoque sacrificetur, quatenus in illis apparent insignia Omnipotentiae & Bonitatis divinae documenta.
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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