Theological Theses · §1141 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Sin as disease; healed by grace and Christ's bruise (Ps 103; Mal 4)

Sin is also disease and wound; God heals infirmities (Psalm 103).

By Christ's bruise we are healed; Malachi's sun of righteousness brings healing in his wings (Malachi 4).

Latin

XIII. Peccata quoque nostra comparantur morbis atque vulneribus, quibus animae nostrae aegrae & sauciae sunt: & propterea Deus dicitur per gratiam suam nostras infirmitates, sive morbos sanare. Quod Dei beneficium agnoscit & celebrat David, Psal. 103. Benedic, inquit, anima mea Domino, & noli oblivisci omnes retributiones ejus. Qui propitiatur omnibus iniquitatibus tuis; Qui sanat omnes infirmitates tuas. Ac quia Christus ille est qui morte sua nobis gratiam illam impetravit, dicimur ejus livore sanati, Cujus livore, inquit Petrus, sanati estis. Et propterea Malachias etiam Propheta vocat illum justitiae solem, in cujus alis, id est, radiis sanitas est: Orietur vobis timentibus nomen meum sol justitiae, & sanitas in pennis sive in alis ejus. Mal. 4.

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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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