Creature life defectible — God alone has immortality

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Even top creatures can lose life if God wills.

Relative creature immortality ≠ absolute.

1 Tim 6: God alone has immortality.

Latin

XV. Adde quod sicut creaturae, etiam excellentissimae, vitam a seipsis non habent, sed a Deo prima rerum omnium causa, sic quoque, simpliciter & absolute loquendo, possunt illae omnes vita destitui, & ab agendo & existendo cessare, siquidem Deo ita visum fuerit. Ut vero Deus a nullo est, ita quoque vita ejus a nullo tolli & aboleri potest. Itaque licet creaturae quaedam aliarum respectu immortales dicantur, quia scilicet Dei beneficio in perpetuum victurae sunt, nec ulla est causa secunda quae illas perimere & destruere possit: tamen, si creaturae cum Deo comparentur, vivunt omnes illae vita mortali & defectibili, solus vero Deus est simpliciter & absolute immortalis & incorruptibilis, & propterea dicitur ab Apostolo solus habere immortalitatem, 1 Tim. 6.

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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