Theological Theses · §1179 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Prophets themselves were tossed with doubts about God’s favor, as the Psalms show

The Psalms record prophets tossed by doubts about God’s abiding mercy.

Psalms 77 and 88 voice fear that God has cast off and shut up his compassions.

Latin

XIX. Patet id exemplis Prophetarum ipsorum quae leguntur in sacra Scriptura. Qualem enim animi aestum experiebatur in se sanctus Propheta, & quibus jactabatur dubitationibus, circa Dei gratiam, favorem atque auxilium, dum sic queritur Psal. 77. Num in aeternum projiciet Deus? & non apponet ut complacitior sit adhuc? Aut in finem misericordiam suam abscindet, a generatione in generationem? Aut obliviscetur misereri Deus? Aut continebit in ira sua misericordias suas? Et Psal. 88. Domine Deus salutis meae, in die clamavi, & nocte coram te. ... Quare Domine repellis orationem meam: avertis faciem tuam a me? ... Transierunt irae tuae: & terrores tui conturbaverunt me. Circundederunt me sicut aqua: tota die circundederunt me simul.

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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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