No accidents in God — subject-accident composition denied
Second composition: subject + accident — does God have it?
Theologians say no: first independent being cannot depend as accidents do.
Perfect essence takes no add-on perfection — God is accident-free.
Latin
XV. Secunda compositio, cujus mentionem fecimus est ex subjecto & accidente, de qua etiam quaestio est, An Deo conveniat, id est, an in Deo sint accidentia quaedam ab essentia ipsius distincta. Id autem Theologi communi consensu negant. Nec sine summa ratione. Etenim quum Deus sit primum ens & prima causa, necesse est ut sit ens omnino independens. Adeoque in ipso nihil est quod ab alio dependeat. Sed accidens omne ab alio dependet, nimirum a subjecto: Ergo in Deo nullum est accidens. Deinde quicquid praeter essentiam accidens aliquod habet, hoc ipso arguitur essentiam habere non omnino perfectam. Nam si essentiae rei alicujus perfectio nulla deesset, nullam extra essentiam perfectionem suscipere posset. Si quidem quod ex se habet omnem perfectionem, ipsi perfectio nulla adjici potest. Sed Deus essentiam habet omnino perfectam: Ergo nullius accidentis est capax. Atque, ut verbo dicam, compositio omnis ex subjecto & accidente arguit imperfectionem tam subjecti, quod ab accidente velut accessoriam perfectionem mutuatur: quam ipsius accidentis, quod propterea semper imperfectum convincitur, quia ejus esse semper a subjecto dependet. Verum in Deo nihil est imperfectum, ideoque est talis compositionis 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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