Matter’s motion needs an external mover — God
Motion is not eternal — so matter-motion had a start.
Matter cannot give itself that first stir.
Who wound torpid matter into a world-system? The highest mind — God.
Latin
XL. Praecipue vero, cum demonstraverimus motum & tempus ab aeterno esse non posse, quicquid sit de materia ipsa, necesse est, ut motus ille partium materiae, unde exorta statuitur universa rerum dispositio, aliquod sui initium habeat: ac proinde materia non potest motum illum a se habere; sed motus iste necessario est a principio extrinseco. Nam illo non concesso materiam aeternam esse, & a se existere, cujus contrarium ante probatum est, attamen post aeternam quietem moveri non potuit, nisi motor aliquis externus motum illum ipsi impresserit. Ecquis vero est ille motor, qui torpentem materiam primo commovere & agitare coepit, & motum ejus tam apte dimensus est, ut inde mundi systema oriretur? Hic certe necessario ad summam quandam mentem, id est, ad Deum recurrendum erit.
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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