Theological Theses · §620

God’s supreme truthfulness is per se known — if perceived as God’s word, absolute certainty follows

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Per se known: God supremely truthful — cannot lie/false-testify.

If something is certainly/evidently perceived as said by God → absolute certainty follows.

Latin

XXII. Jam autem est quidem per se notum Deum esse summe veracem, ac plane fieri non posse ut mentiatur, & falsum testimonium perhibeat. Adeoque si quis certo & evidenter percipiat aliquid a Deo dici & asseri, inde proculdubio in mente ejus formabitur certitudo summa atque absoluta.

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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