Theological Theses · §1568 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Saint-honor differs only in degree from civil honor, but in kind from divine worship

However high the respect due to people adorned with saving grace and crowned with glory, the Reformed hold it differs from ordinary civil honor only by degree.

The people compared are those who excel by office, rank, or natural excellence.

From the honor God's majesty requires, the same respect differs in its whole kind.

Latin

XI. Sed quantalibet sit illa observantia qua colere & honorare debemus quos Deus in hac vita salutifera gratia ornavit, & in altera gloria coronavit, pertendunt illam solo gradu differre ab honore illo quo colere tenemur eos qui potestate & dignitate civili, aut naturali aliqua virtute atque praestantia, inter alios eminent & excellunt; ab eo vero quem divina Majestas postulat & exigit toto genere discrepare.

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