Our mind cannot grasp what God is in Himself

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First: confess our weakness — we cannot grasp God-in-Himself here.

1 Cor 13: mirror and enigma; 1 John 3: seeing as He is is future privilege.

If fly and ant essence escape us, much less God's.

Latin

II. Hic autem ante omnia profitenda est imbecillitas & ignorantia nostra. Nec enim putandum est mentem humanam, saltem quamdiu in hoc mortali corpore degit, capere posse quid Deus sit in se. Id docet Apostolus 1 Cor. 13. cum ait, nos nunc Deum videre per speculum & in aenigmate. Et Joan. ep. 1. c. 3. proponens tanquam vitae futurae privilegium quod Deum tunc sicuti est visuri simus. Indicio manifesto quod Deus sicuti est, a nobis jam non cognoscitur. Et certe si ne muscae quidem & formicae essentia a nobis jam percipi potest, ut modestiores philosophi agnoscunt, quanto minus existimandum est cognitione nos assequi posse quid sit Dei natura atque essentia.

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).

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