Theological Theses · §1373 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Nicaea II’s constant teaching: Christ’s and the saints’ images are to be adored—and doubters are anathematized

Nicaea II (Rome’s ‘seventh’) steadily teaches that Christ’s and the saints’ images are to be adored and saluted.

Whoever hesitates about that adoration is anathematized.

Latin

IV. Quod spectat secundum Concilium Nicenum, quod in Schola Romana Universale septimum appellatur, constans & manifesta illius doctrina est, adorandas esse Christi & sanctorum imagines. Nam in epistola hujus Concilii ad Constantinum & Irenem circa finem haec verba habentur. His ita se habentibus in confesso & sine ulla dubitatione credimus, acceptam & placitam coram Deo esse venerandarum imaginum depictionem, & earum quae dispensationem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi exprimunt, & Virginis quoque Deiparae intemeratae, quinetiam gloriosorum Angelorum, & omnium Sanctorum, has quoque adorandas & salutandas putamus. Qui vero ita non est animatus, sed circa Venerandarum imaginum adorationem laborat & dubitat, eum anathematizat sancta & veneranda nostra Synodus. Tom. 3. Conc. Edit. Coloniensis Anni 1606. pag. 391. litt. A.

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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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