World-bodies are composites, not simple self-beings
First: chief world-bodies are not unproduced self-beings.
They are composites of diverse parts — rocks, waters, earth — not simples.
What is from itself must be simple and have nothing prior; composites need a unifier.
Latin
XVII. Primum igitur quod corpora illa, quae sunt universi partes praecipuae & integrantes non sint entia a se & improducta multis modis probari potest. Nam primo non sunt entia per se & simplicia, sed tota quaedam congesta ex partibus diversae naturae; Saltem id manifestum est in hoc terreno & elementari globo, qui constat partibus maxime diversis: veluti petris, aquis, & terra proprie sic dicta, aliisque hujusmodi; sed quod est a se debet esse aliquid simplex. Nam quod est a se nihil habet se prius. Quod vero conflatum & compositum est ex partibus diversis, posterius est partibus ex quibus componitur; partes enim sunt aliquid prius toto. Deinde res diversae non coalescunt in Unum, nisi per aliquam causam uniantur. Sed quod est a se nullam causam habet, neque dependet ab alio.
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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