Three candidate causes: chance, blind nature, or intelligent mind

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World is made — what cause?

Three options: chance atom-clash, blind necessary nature, or intelligent best-and-powerful mind.

Next theses reject the first two.

Latin

XXXI. Sed ut res adhuc fiat manifestior, & omnis dubitandi tollatur occasio, quandoquidem evicimus mundum factum fuisse, & existentiae suae causam habere. Rogamus, quae sit illa causa cui mundus suam originem debeat? Certe, quantum animo capimus, tres ejus omnino causae fingi & assignari possunt. Vel enim dicendum est illum casu exortum fuisse, & ex fortuito quodam particularum materiae concursu: vel habere quidem causam necessariam, sed tamen brutam & sui nesciam, quae naturae nomine vocetur: Vel denique, ut diximus, mundum opus esse causae cujusdam intelligentis, optimae simul & potentissimae.

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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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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