Theological Theses · §454

Essence through lower places does not pollute God — only sin is filth before Him

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No fear: essence in low places does not soil God.

Spirit — untouchable by body; infinite gap — receives nothing from creatures.

Creaturely filth is relative to us; before God only sin is spiritual uncleanness.

Latin

XXX. Neque metuendum est ne Deus locorum sordibus inquinetur. Et ne, si ejus essentia per haec inferiora & terrena diffusa sit, ubi tam multa polluta & sordida occurrunt, inde pollutionem & immunditiem aliquam contrahat. Nam cum Deus sit spiritus a corpore tangi non potest. Et cum infinito naturae intervallo creaturam omnem superet, a creatura non potest quicquam recipere, vel pati. Deinde verum est quidem quaedam corporaliter immunda & sordida esse respectu nostri, vel alterius creaturae, cujus naturam offendunt, corrumpunt, aut vitiant. Sed respectu Dei nulla res sordida aut polluta est. Solum vero peccatum, quod non est res, sed rei vitium, & defectus, quodque Deus nec facit, nec contingit, spiritualis immunditia est, & abominatio coram Deo.

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

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