Immutability from absolute simplicity

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Reason: absolute simplicity → no change.

Change needs a remaining subject and a departing form/act — composition.

Most simple God: no other-and-other — no change can fall on Him.

Latin

XVI. Nec minus evidenter ipsa ratio probat Deum esse omnis omnino mutationis expertem. Id enim necessario colligitur ex ejus absoluta simplicitate, quae ante a nobis demonstrata fuit Thesibus de hoc argumento editis: etenim quicquid mutatur, secundum aliquid manet, & secundum aliquid transit, nempe subjectum manet, forma vero aut actus aliquis ab eo abscedit: Ac proinde necesse est id quod mutatur a summa simplicitate deficere, & aliquo modo componi ex diversis. Igitur cum Deus sit simplicissimus, nec in eo sit aliud & aliud, planum est in eum nullam mutationem cadere.

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)
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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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