Moral certainty from constant fame and common consent
Certainty from constant fame + celebrated human consensus.
Excludes fear and doubt (Rome’s consuls/emperors; Constantinople; Spain in America).
With VIII’s sign-certainty: Schools call this certitudo Moralis.
Latin
IX. Denique est certitudo quaedam quam fama constans ingenerat, & consensus hominum tam confirmatus & celebris, ut a mente prorsus excludat omnem formidinem & dubitationem. Ita nemo est, cui sit aliquis rerum & literarum usus, qui non indubitate & certissime sibi persuadeat populum Romanum olim Consules suos habuisse: & postea fuisse Imperatoribus subjectum. Item esse in Thracia urbem nomine Constantinopolim, quae sedes est magni cujusdam imperii: & Hispaniae regem Americae partem maximam subegisse, & illi dominari. Ista vero postrema certitudinis species, ut & illa de qua Thesi superiori, in Scholis certitudo Moralis appellari solet.
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.