Theological Theses · §1385 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

What that adoration really is is clearest from Rome’s solemn universal temple-practice, approved or silently allowed by pastors and Pope

Rome’s real image-adoration is best read from her public temple practice.

Bishops, pastors, and Pope either approve or stay silent while the people make it part of piety.

Latin

XVI. Verum quae & qualis sit illa adoratio quae, juxta mentem Ecclesiae Romanae, imaginibus Christi & Sanctorum debetur, certius colligi non potest quam ex istius Ecclesiae praxi solenni & universali. Hoc autem nomine merito donandus est cultus ille, qui in templis Ecclesiae Romanae imaginibus palam exhibetur, scientibus & videntibus omnibus, ac per solennes quasdam & publicas ceremonias, in quibus plebs Romana pietatis suae partem constituit; non repugnantibus, nec improbantibus Pastoribus ordinariis, nec Episcopis, neque Papa; sed contra cum multorum Doctorum & Episcoporum expressa approbatione, & aliorum tacito consensu; quandoquidem ea de re silent, neque quicquam contra proferunt.

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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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