Theological Theses · §1045 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Believers called just and holy over against the wicked

Scripture often names believers just and holy over against the wicked.

Noah, Lot, Joseph of Arimathea are singled out as just.

Latin

XI. Ab utraque vero fideles in Scriptura frequenter justi sanctique nominantur, & quidem opposite ad impios & peccatores, a quibus illos Scriptura justorum titulo distinguit. Ut quum apud Petrum dicitur, Oculi Domini super justos, & aures ejus in preces eorum: vultus autem Domini super facientes mala, 1 Pet. 3. 12. Item, Si justus vix salvatur, impius & peccator ubi comparebit? 1 Pet. 4. 18. Neque fide-les in genere solum justi sanctique nuncupantur; sed & sigillatim ex fidelibus multi hoc titulo insigniuntur, ut exempli gratia, Noe qui dicitur fuisse vir justus & integer in generationibus suis, Gen. 6. v. 9. & Lot, quem Petrus Apostolus justi nomine desi-gnat, 2 Petr. 2. v. 7, 8. item Joseph ab Arimathaea, Luc. 23. 50.

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Louis Le Blanc, a Reformed professor at Sedan, sets out theology in theses argued against Rome: Scripture, faith, grace, free choice, good works and the saints.

This volume holds the Theses on Theology I–XLIII and On Faith I–XXII, in eighteen sections.

Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu (1614–1675) was minister and professor of theology at the Academy of Sedan, the Reformed school on France's eastern border. His Theses were disputed by students over many years and collected in a London folio (1675).

The Theological Theses range across the whole Reformed system — Scripture, God, predestination, grace, and justifying faith — in the crisp thesis-and-proof form of the seventeenth-century schools.

Date1675 AD (Sedan theses; London collection)

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Reference

ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves).

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