Heaven-habitation texts do not box substance — temple and Church parallels

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Vorstius cites heaven-as-dwelling texts (Ps 115, 123).

Same logic would have boxed God in the Jerusalem temple.

Church/believers are God's temple — that does not confine substance to them alone.

Latin

XXIV. Quod autem Vorstium, & paucos quosdam movit ut essentiae divinae magnitudinem limitarent, & Dei substantiam caelo inclusam esse opinarentur, sunt multa Scripturae loca ubi caelum terrae oppositum describitur tanquam Dei habitaculum & locus in quo residet. Sicut id quod legitur Psal. 115. Caeli caelorum Domino, terram autem dedit filiis hominum. Et Psal. 123. Ad te levavi oculos qui habitas in caelis. Sed si ideo putandum est Dei substantiam caelo contineri, & extra caelum non esse, quoniam Deus dicitur peculiariter habitare in caelo: pari ratione concludendum erit Deum olim inclusum fuisse templo Hierosolymitano: quoniam saepe quoque dicitur Deus templum istud elegisse tanquam domum & sedem in qua habitaret. Et praeterea, tam tota Ecclesia conjunctim, quam singuli fideles seorsim, vocantur in Sacra Scriptura Dei templum, in quo etiam Deus dicitur habitare. Et tamen quis inde colliget Deum per substantiam alibi praesentem non esse, quam in Ecclesia & illius membris?

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)
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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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