Eternity proper to God alone — 1 Tim 6:16 sole immortality
Divine eternity is incommunicable — every creature began from nothing.
Even a supposed eternal creature could have not been; angels can still end if God wills.
1 Tim 6:16: God alone has immortality — absolute inability to perish.
Latin
X. Unde patet aeternitatem illam quae Deo competit esse proprium naturae divinae attributum, quod cum creatura nulla communicari potest. Quum enim creatio sit productio rei ex nihilo, omnis creatura necessario incepit, & aliquando non fuit, quandoquidem transiit a non esse ad esse. Ac quamvis ex Philosophis nonnulli existiment creaturam aliquam ab aeterno posse existere, attamen, quum Deus sit agens liberrimum quod agit absque ulla necessitate, si quae creatura foret ab aeterno, saltem potuisset ab aeterno non esse, & habuisse suae durationis initium, nec esset necesse ut semper fuisset: & similiter quamvis creaturae quaedam nunquam sint finem habiturae, sicut Angeli & humani spiritus, nihilominus nulla est creatura quae finem non possit habere, si quidem Deo ita visum esset: nam sicut omnia ex nihilo creavit, ita omnia ad ipsius nutum in nihilum possunt recidere, & haec est ratio cur 1 Tim. 6. 16. dicitur Deus solus habere immortalitatem, nimirum quia licet non possint quaedam ab ulla creatura destrui, nihil est tamen praeter Deum quod, absolute loquendo, interire & deficere non possit.
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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