First object — God Himself; needed for creating counsel
Chief object of divine knowing: God Himself.
Self-knowledge is part of wisdom.
Without knowing Himself He could not plan creation.
Latin
VII. Sed ad pleniorem & distinctiorem omniscientiae divinae notitiam, necesse est ejus varia objecta percurrere & seorsim considerare. Primum autem & praecipuum cognitionis divinae objectum est, Deus ipse. Si enim creaturae intelligentes seipsas cognoscant: quanto magis istud est de Deo existimandum. Hoc ipsum exigit Dei sapientia: Etenim sapientiae pars non minima est seipsum novisse. Nec etiam objectum nobilissimum, quod est Deus, latere potest intellectum divinum, qui omnium nobilissimus est. Ac profecto si Deus seipsum non novisset, rerum creandarum consilium capere non potuisset: ad hoc enim necesse fuit, ut vires suas immensas suamque sapientiam, quibus res omnes condere, disponere & regere posset, probe cognitas & perspectas haberet.
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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