Theological Theses · §560

Remaining dispute is method of our concepts, not the thing in God

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Given the agreed points: leftover quarrel ≠ the thing in God.

It is only how we sort our concepts of one will-act.

Execution-order vs intention/end-means order — nearly arbitrary, both blameless.

Latin

XXXIII. Si enim ista, de quibus jam convenit, inter Scholam Romanam & Scholam Reformatam, agnita & concessa fuerint, quod superest controversiae, non erit de reipsa, qualiter res, scilicet, in Deo se habeat, sed solum de Methodo aliquos mentis nostrae conceptus digerendi. Nempe omnes jam in eo consentiunt, decretum de danda gloria, & decretum de gratia conferenda, non esse duo decreta realiter in Deo distincta, & inter quae possit esse realis aliquis ordo prioris & posterioris; sed Deum unico voluntatis actu uno ista constituisse. Verum mens nostra non valens, propter suam imbecillitatem, uno conceptu exhaurire, & simul complecti omnes illos respectus, quos unicus actus voluntatis Divinae ad varia objecta habet, cogitur illam seorsim concipere, prout modo hoc objectum, modo illud respicit, & sic illam diverse nominat, & modo unius decreti, modo alterius nomen illi imponit. Et postea inter varios illos conceptus, quos unius, & nunc alterius decreti nominibus insignit, excogitat aliquem ordinem, quo convenienter inter se disponantur, qui ordo propemodum arbitrarius videtur: Et citra culpam & reprehensionem diverse assignari potest: dum alii nimirum conceptus suos de decretis divinis, secundum ipsam rerum executionem, digerunt, alii vero, si quae sit relatio mediorum & finis, inter res a Deo decretas, malunt ordinem intentionis sequi, & tanquam, prius concipere decretum de re quae finis est, ut posterius autem illud quod se habet tanquam medium ad illam.

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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