In God essence cannot be cut from existence
Creatures: essence without existence — contingent, accidental.
God: essence cannot be conceived without existing.
First essential attribute: necessary being — to be and exist is of His essence.
Latin
XVII. Tertia compositio, quae a nobis notata fuit, est ex essentia & existentia. Nam haec duo, ut dictum, in rebus creatis omnino distinguuntur. Estque in iis alia essentiae ratio, & alia existentiae: quandoquidem tota earum essentia concipi potest absque existentia, nec existentia ingreditur earum definitionem. Et hoc quia possunt esse & non esse, nec est ulla res creata quam non existere repugnet. Ideoque earum respectu existentia est aliquid contingens, non vero necessarium, & aliquid accidentarium, non autem essentiale. Sed in Deo res aliter se habet. Nam essentia ejus non potest concipi absque existentia. Et repugnat plane Deum concipere qui non existat. Nec magis potest mente abstrahi & praescindi essentia Dei ab ejus existentia, quam essentia hominis ab animali vel rationali. Nam quamvis in Deo nihil sit prius & posterius, attamen nostro concipiendi modo primum & maxime essentiale Dei attributum est, quod sit ens primum & necessarium, id est, quod primo per se & necessario existat: estque omnino de Dei essentia esse & existere.
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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