Immensity implies immobility — already everywhere, needs no local motion
Fills all actual and possible places → immobile.
Local movers leave one place for another; ubiquity cannot.
Finite things need successive motion; immensity already has that more perfectly.
Latin
XXXI. Porro ex ista Dei immensitate, qua omnia loca tam actualia, quam possibilia replet, sequitur illum esse immobilem, neque posse mutare locum. Nam quod locum mutat & loco movetur necesse est ut locum unum deserat, & alium acquirat. Sed quod ubique jam est, & loca omnia replet, nullum locum acquirere potest, nec ullum locum deserere. Et certe vis se loco movendi est magna quidem perfectio in substantia finita, quae, cum pluribus in locis simul esse non possit, beneficio facultatis illius potest innumeris locis successive adesse, & ita suam, ut ita dicam, finitatem & parvitatem quodammodo compensare. Sed Dei infinitas & immensitas efficit ut auxilio isto non egeat: quandoquidem per suam immensitatem habet modo perfectissimo quicquid per motum localem suppleri, & acquiri potest modo longe imperfectiori.
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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