Limited diverse natures prove an efficient cause — not aseity
Diverse limited perfections need an efficient cause.
If all were from themselves they would be one unbounded being.
Aseity would be the fountain of all perfection — not a capped planet-nature.
Latin
XX. Quod corpora illa quae constituunt totum hoc universum, entia a se non sint, sed ab alio orta & producta, inde probatur, quod singula certam & determinatam perfectionem habent, & naturam ab invicem diversam: istud enim eorum discrimen, & ista determinatio omnino referri debet ad causam efficientem, quae singulis talem naturam indulsit, ac perfectionem istam & non aliam. Quod si essent a se omnia, unum & idem essent. Unde foret enim quod naturam diversam haberent, ac praeterea omni perfectionis termino & limite carerent? Nam quod essentiam habet determinatam & limitatam, necesse est ita fuisse limitatum ab aliqua causa: sed quod est a se nullam causam habet, quae limites & terminos ei ponere potuerit, sed esse per se hausit in ipso fonte, aut potius est ipsius esse fons, necesse est in se continere omnem entitatem & perfectionem.
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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