Climb toward God’s life — living bodies as divine automata

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Approach God’s life by creature grades.

Living bodies = God’s crafted automata.

Nature’s works = divine art; human art = nature guided by mind.

Latin

V. Ut vero ad vitam illam quae Deo Optimo Maximo competit, & de qua hic nobis agendum est, sensim, & veluti per gradus assurgamus, notandum est Deum plures viventium ordines in creaturis corporeis atque visibilibus creasse & constituisse. Etenim quemadmodum hominum industria & solertia praecipue elucet in fabricandis variis machinis, quae sponte moveri videntur & pluribus usibus in humana vita inserviunt, sic quoque, ut sic dicam, Dei sapientia sese manifestavit dum in hoc mundo sensibili varia, ut sic dicam, αὐτόματα excogitavit, & incomprehensibili ac plane stupenda arte fabricata est, quae nos corpora viventia vocamus. Et certe opera naturae non aliud sunt rite expendenti quam opera artis divinae, sicut vice versa opera artis humanae nihil aliud sunt quam opera naturae quatenus a mente humana dirigitur.

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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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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