Theological Theses · §576

Object as possible/creatable — not as fallen or already created

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Estius/Mendoza: man-object = possible/creatable, not fallen or already made.

Because fall-permission and creation are themselves effects.

So foresight of fall/creation follows praedestinatio — Estius 1 Sent. d.40 §6.

Latin

XV. Ex eo vero licet colligere sub quo respectu duo illi Doctores hominem objectum putent Deo praedestinanti, nempe non ut lapsum neque ut conditum in divina praescientia, sed potius simpliciter ut possibilem, sive creabilem. Nam cum permissio lapsus primi hominis, imo & ipsius hominis creatio, ab iis recensetur inter effectus praedestinationis, necesse est ut, ex eorum mente, praevisio lapsus & creationis non praecesserit in Deo, juxta nostrum intelligendi modum, decretum praedestinationis, sed potius illud secuta sit; & sic Deus homines praedestinans illos ut lapsos & conditos considerare non potuit, sed solum ut a se creabiles. Quod cum Mendoza agnoscit Estius. Non ita nominamus, inquit, praedestinationem hominum lapsi, quasi praevisio lapsus primi hominis, atque in eo totius humani generis, praecesserit in Deo, secundum modum intelligentiae nostrae, praedestinationem aliquorum ex toto hominum genere ad vitam aeternam. Citata Distinctione quadragesima libri primi sententiarum, paragrapho 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

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