Theological Theses · §1578 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Only such cult is lawful toward the blessed as suits an absent creature

The next question is what honor the Reformed actually grant the blessed, whether human or angelic.

Their general rule is that nothing may be shown them beyond what fits a creature who is absent, or as good as absent.

There is no mutual commerce with such a creature on which a richer cult could rest.

Latin

XXI. Caeterum ut jam videamus qua in re consistat honor, quem Beatis in caelo spiritibus, sive hominum, sive Angelorum, deberi fatentur Scholae Reformatae Doctores, ante omnia in genere statuunt nullum cultum licite illis exhiberi posse, quam qui competit creaturae absenti, aut quae instar absentis est, & cum qua nullum nobis est mutuum commercium.

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