Theological Theses · §1653 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Rome assumes the saints see and hear all who pray to them; that is walking in what we have not seen

The theologians of the Roman school assume that the spirits of the just, once admitted into heaven, know and perceive what happens on earth despite so vast a distance. They assume that each saint can at one and the same time hear the prayers of everyone who calls on him and see their needs, and can also look into their inmost thoughts and the hidden desires of their hearts and know them with certainty.

But this should not have been assumed without the word of God and sure reasoning. To declare it on the strength of our guesses and suspicions is simply to set foot in things we have not seen (Colossians 2:18).

Latin

XCVI. Supponunt quidem Scholae Romanae Theologi Spiritus justorum in caelum admissos non obstante tanta locorum distantia, ea scire atque percipere quae in terris geruntur; & Sanctorum singulos posse simul omnium hominum ipsos invocantium, non solum preces audire, & necessitates videre, sed & intimas cogitationes & arcanos cordis affectus intueri, & certo novisse. Verum hoc absque Dei verbo, & certa ratione supponi non debuit: istudque ex conjecturis & suspicionibus nostris pronunciare, plane est pedem inferre in ea quae non vidimus.

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