Infinite perfection bars change for better or worse
Change would be better or worse — both clash with infinite perfection.
Better means a prior lack; worse means a lost perfection.
Change needs impotence or a stronger other — neither fits the first Ens.
Latin
XVII. Idem quoque evincitur ex infinita Dei perfectione, nam si Deus mutaretur, mutatio illa fieret vel in melius, vel in deterius. Quorum utrumque divinae perfectioni repugnat. Nam quod mutatur in melius, necessario carebat aliqua perfectione quam per mutationem illam adipiscitur: & quod in deterius mutatur, per mutationem illam perfectionem aliquam amittit, adeoque non potest esse summe perfectum. Adde quod res nulla est mutationi obnoxia, nisi vel ex propria ejus impotentia, vel ex alterius majore potentia: Deo vero, qui est Ens primum & independens, nihil est potentius, nec ulla potest ei tribui impotentia, si quidem nulla perfectione caret.
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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