Saving knowledge is rare — yet even "atheist" nations keep a sense of deity
True saving knowledge is rare; most nations miss the true God.
Ephesians 2:12: without God in the world — yet a sense of deity remains.
Idolatry proves it: proud man would rather bow to stones than admit no God.
Latin
VI. Non est quidem negandum, veram & salutarem Dei cognitionem apud paucos admodum homines reperiri: Verumque Deum fuisse, & etiamnum esse, plerisque gentibus ignotum, quo nomine dicuntur ab Apostolo ἄθεοι ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ, sine Deo in mundo, Eph. 2.12. Sed hoc non obstat, quo minus apud illas ipsas gentes, quas Paulus Atheismi quodammodo intitulat, numinis tamen sensus aliquis remanserit, licet multis & foedis erroribus implicatus. Cujus rei argumentum est illa ipsa idololatria, qua sese gentes profanae polluerunt, & relicto creatore, creaturas varias, & ipsa animi sui figmenta coluerunt. Oportet enim ut alte hominibus impressus sit iste divinitatis sensus, quandoquidem homo, plus satis alioqui ad superbiam pronus & fastu tumens, maluerit se abjicere infra bestias, & colere lapides & ligna, quam nullum plane Deum agnoscere.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu, Sedan Theses, newly rendered from Latin: from theology proper through the Roman theses I–77 and the Reformed theses of Part Two. The theses only — not the collected works.
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)
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