Rivet: angels, if present, would be received; being unseen and not everywhere, they are not greeted

Rivet treats honor of rational creatures, angels and humans, together.

If angels are present we do not know when or where, unless they appear visibly as they once did.

Some are often near and helpful, but there is no conversation with them, they are not everywhere, and they do not search the heart, so we neither speak to them nor greet them with outward signs.

The patriarchs did greet angels whom they received as men; apart from that, angels are spoken of with honor, and their obedience is magnified for imitation.

Latin

XXXVIII. Andreas Rivetus autem sic pluribus philosophatur de honore qui debetur creaturis rationalibus, sive Angeli, sive homines sint. Si adsint, inquit, Angeli, id nobis incognitum est quando, & ubi, nisi aliquando visibili specie, ut olim factum est, nobis appareant. Alioquin aliquos nobis adesse saepius, & nos juvare novimus: sed quia nobis non est cum eis sermonis commercium, nec ubique sunt, nec cordium nostrorum recessus scrutantur: ideo non solemus cum iis verba commutare, neque signis externis eos salutare. Quod cum praesentibus hominibus facimus, & cum Angelis olim fecerunt Patriarchae, qui domi suae exceperunt, quos homines putarunt. Extra hanc occasionem de Angelis loquimur (Angelus suos intelligo) cum honore & reverentia, eorum naturam, officia, obediendi Deo promptitudinem magnifacimus, & hanc nobis imitandam proponimus.

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 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)
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