Feeling God's finger in the word's work confirms it is divine
Word cannot so work without men feeling God's finger in themselves.
They own a divine efficacy moving the mind within.
That felt force becomes a new argument: this word is truly divine.
Paul to Thessalonica: received as God's word, which works in you who believed (1 Thess 2:13).
Latin
XLVI. Ista vero Dei verbum in hominum animis operari non potest, quin ipsi digitum Dei in se sentiant, & agnoscant divinam quandam efficaciam, quae intus eorum animos miris & variis modis commovet & afficit. Nec possunt mentem eo referre, quin inde valide in fide confirmentur, & novo quodam argumento colligant vere divinum esse verbum illud cujus tam divinam vim & energiam in se persentiunt. Quo spectat Apostolus dum gratulatur Thessalonicensibus quod verbum auditus Dei accepissent, non ut verbum hominum, sed sicut vere est, ut verbum Dei, quod & (inquit) operatur in vobis qui credidistis, 1 Thess. 2.13.
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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