God's existence is not revelation-only — nature presses it on the senses

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This principle is not revelation-only — nature itself drums it in.

Romans 1:20: everlasting power and divinity seen in the things made.

Job: ask beasts, birds, earth, and fish — the Lord's hand made them.

Latin

IV. Porro principium istud non est de genere eorum, quae ex sola revelatione & Dei verbo habentur: sed res est, quam tota rerum natura inculcat, & nostris pene sensibus ingerit. Nam ut ait Apostolus Rom. 1.20. Invisibilia Dei sempiterna scil. ejus virtus & divinitas a creatione mundi, per ea, quae facta sunt intellecta, conspiciuntur. Quo spectat etiam Job 12.7-9. Interroga, inquit, jumenta, & docebunt te: aut aves, & indicabunt tibi: aut terram alloquere, & docebit te; & ipsos pisces maris, & tibi narrabunt. Quis ignorat quod haec omnia manus Domini fecerit?

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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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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