Theological Theses · §1371 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

True Roman doctrine on images is drawn from general Councils, universal practice, and common doctor-consensus

Three wells yield Rome’s real teaching on images: general Councils Rome owns, her universal practice, and the received doctors’ consensus.

What those three agree on may safely be called Roman dogma.

Latin

II. Ut autem certo habeatur, quae sit vera doctrina Ecclesiae Romanae de cultu imaginum, primo consulenda sunt Concilia quae apud ipsam habentur pro generalibus, & a Pontifice Romano probatis. Praeterea videndum est quae sit Universalis & apud omnes recepta Ecclesiae istius praxis. Denique examinandum est quid ea de re statuat communis doctorum in ea receptorum consensus. Nam ex tribus hisce fontibus hauriri potest vera & genuina Ecclesiae Romanae doctrina. Ac tanquam fidei Romanae dogma tuto haberi potest quod est in Generalibus Ecclesiae Romanae Conciliis definitum, quod firmat ejus praxis Universalis, & quod communi consensu Doctores illius tenent & amplectuntur.

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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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