Infinite marks of wisdom — not a brute cause
World-system and each creature show infinite marks of highest wisdom.
Proportions exact beyond human grasp.
Only a fool credits that to a brute, mindless cause.
Latin
XXXVI. Praeterea si quis consideret, tam universum hujus mundi systema & corporum illorum, quibus constat, dispositionem, motusque & flexus varios, quam singula quae in eo observantur, plantas, dico, & animalia & alia, quae videre & tractare possumus, negare non poterit, in omnibus istis elucere infinitas summae sapientiae notas: atque non tantum totius universi, sed animalis cujusque structuram, ita mirandam & stupendam esse, & in ea proportiones omnes tam accurate & exacte observatas, atque tam diligenter & proinde omnibus prospectum, ut ingenium humanum, sapientiam tantam satis capere & mirari non possit. Quis ergo, nisi plane stupidus & insipiens, opera tanta cum arte & industria facta, tantoque cum ordine & harmonia digesta, referre possit in causam, quae sit omnino bruta, omnisque sapientiae & cognitionis expers?
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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