Scripture: God is spirit, fills all, no bodily likeness

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Scripture + reason: God is wholly incorporeal.

John 4: God is spirit; Ps 139 / Jer 23: He fills all — no extended body.

Isa 40 / Acts 17: no bodily likeness of God.

Latin

XII. Sed quicquid ille & alii senserint, certum est tam ex Scriptura, quam ex recta ratione, Deum omnino esse incorporeum. Primo enim Scriptura Deum diserte spiritum appellat Joan. 4. Nam inquit Christus, Deus spiritus est. Spiritus autem & corpus opponuntur. 2. Docet Scriptura Deum ubique esse & omnia replere. Psal. 139. Quo ibo a Spiritu tuo, & quo fugiam a facie tua? &c. Et Jer. 23. Annon caelum & terram ego impleo, inquit Dominus? Jam autem si Deus esset corpus & extensum quid, non posset ubique esse & omnia replere, quin duo corpora simul essent, & daretur penetratio dimensionum, quod absurdum est & impossibile. Ac denique Scriptura satis indicat Deum non esse corpus, dum negat ullum fingi posse corporeum simulachrum quod sit Deo simile. Ut Isaiae 40. cui similem facietis Deum, aut quam imaginem ponetis ei? Et Act. 17. Non debemus existimare sculpturae artis & cogitationis hominis divinum esse simile.

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)
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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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