No possible perfection can be absent from God

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If a missing "perfection" is impossible — it is nothing, not a lack.

If it is possible — it depends on the first cause.

So it is in God at least virtute & eminenter.

Latin

XVIII. Et certe si a Deo absit aliqua perfectio, necesse est ut perfectio ista sit aliquid possibile, vel non. Si non est quidpiam possibile; sed aliquid quod esse repugnat, certe perfectio non est, sed merum nihil: nec Deus quod illam non habet potest dici aliqua perfectione carere. Si vero est aliquid possibile quod sit, aut esse possit, quandoquidem Deus est primum ens, & prima causa, unde reliqua omnia pendent, nec est, nec esse potest, nisi per Dei virtutem, & consequenter ab eo non abest: sed in eo saltem virtute & eminenter continetur.

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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