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# Title: [Qua Divi Thomae Vera mens de singulis vitae humanae & Christianae officiis inter rigidas & laxiores opiniones media defenditur] Qva Divi Thomæ Vera mens de singulis vitæ humanæ & Christianæ officiis inter rigidas & laxiores opiniones media defenditur (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 210:2)
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DEFENSIO REETEIONIS.
sione ad 4. addic S. Doctor seruiturem dominio relpon-
dere oportet; cum singularissimum in nos Deus habeat
dominium, singulari etiam seruiture eNe colendum: ee
Quamuis ad omnes id pertincat, religiolis tamen id ma-
rime convenit, quia aliis negoriis raledicune, verni Deo
Vacent.
Sic explicatà norione d errinolosia religionis, quis du-
bicer rirturem esse perfectissimam, de ruam: Ouid enim
lanctius, quam rependere. Deo oblequia, iure dominii
debita, eiusque Majestatem reuereri d TTInC pFObaL AFE.
3. relisionem rnam specie atoma rircurem este, quia ilsi
incumibie Deum reuereri, re omnium rerum primam cau-
lam, ec finem rlcimum: _e hocillustrat respontione ad 3.
c. 4. Cubeilissimâ collatione religionis cum charitate.
aec ria Deum de homines prosequicur, quod bonitarem
nspiciar conforrii patiencem e amantem; de ideo rna
tertur in Deum, caterolque einsdem boni e amicitia par.
erpes: religio aurem rnam Dei Majeltarem et excellen.
ciam spectat, qua Deus a crearis omnibus Cejunsicr.
linceriam dinidenda est religio, qua Deus colitur, ab
Ea virture, qu’a homines reveremur, e obseruantiam ro-
Camus.
Religioneni mediam constituimus inter virtuces Theo-
gieas e morales: hinc Aec. 5. Concludic S. DoctOF, in-
CaillasCtare, & Aer. 6. istis eminere, quod Theologicis à
Deo longius absine, e propius moralibus. Licet enim
Deo adhaereat relioio, re sini, in queni omnia refere, ip.
sramen rebus quibus colitur Deus, addicta est, VE MaF
cha distenta erat prandio quod parabar Christo: acque
inde rea luo obiecto speciem haurie religio. Theologicis
ero rircuribus, diuvimitas rna loco est omnium, Aides
Deo, Deum credit, ec in Deum, quia illius cestimonio
de leiplo, aur à le reuelaris astentitur: eadem est rario cha-
cacis, Deum amac, rno sux bonitatis respectu. Relisio
lcer Deo jungatur, illique nos subiiciac, aur eo rete-
ac, rebus camen ad illius obsequium pararis infictic: 2c
eroinde arctior ee intimior est charitaris cum DeoCO-
Elacio, quam relisionis, quod ad illam nultum medium
Plaeter Deum, ad ictam vineuti loco, sint orationes de la-
Criticia, per se acrenca, ec inspecta à religione; in Deum
candem reterenda.