Creatures finite by bounded kinds — God holds every kind eminently
Creature essences finite: each kind stops at its own limit.
Ox / horse / man — each lacks the others' essential perfection.
God holds every being's perfection eminently — so His essence is infinite.
Latin
XXII. Deinde essentiae rerum creatarum ideo finitae dicuntur, quia perfectio uniuscujusque certum terminum & limitem habet, ultra quem non extenditur. Nimirum haec habet unam perfectionem, ista vero aliam: & singulae, intra fines proprios continentur, nec perfectiones aliarum habent. Ita perfectio quaedam essentialis est in bove, quaedam in equo, quaedam in homine: verum equus non habet perfectionem bovis, nec homo habet perfectionem equi, sed istorum unumquodque suam. Et in summa, nulla est creatura quantumvis perfecta, a qua non absit aliqua perfectio. Cum ergo in Deo res aliter se habeat, & ipse contineat omnem omnis entis perfectionem, modo quodam nobilissimo & eminentissimo, ipsius essentia finita dici non potest; sed infinitam esse necesse est.
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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