Theological Theses · §346

What is from itself needs nothing — but planets need the sun

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What is from itself is self-sufficient.

Earth and planets need the sun's light and heat — they cannot stand alone.

Need of another means dependence — and conservation implies an efficient cause.

Latin

XVIII. Deinde quod est a se, est sibi ipsi sufficiens, nec ullo alio indiget. Sed corpora illa, quibus hoc universum constat, veluti terra, planetae, res hujusmodi non sunt: sed aliena ope egent, nec possunt alio carere. Minor manifesta est. Nam terra & planetae lumine solis egent. Neque globus elementaris absque sole subsistere posset: Sed omnino opus habet luce & calore illius foveri, ut in suo statu & esse permaneat. Et sic quoque proculdubio reliquae universi partes solae per se esse non possent: multisque modis ab aliis juvantur atque sustentantur. Nec vero minus evidens est, quod est a se sibi sufficere, & alio non indigere: Nam quod alio indiget, & sibi ipsi non sufficit, non potest absque alio conservari. At quod non potest absque alio conservari, ab alio pendet ut sit. Quod autem ut sit ab alio pendet, certe illud non est a se. Adde quod ens a se nullam omnino causam habet: Nam a seipso esse, est causam non habere, sed quod non potest absque alio conservari causam aliquam habet, scilicet conservantem. Ac praeterea quicquid causam conservantem habet, efficientem quoque habet. Nam conservatio est quaedam efficientiae continuatio.

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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