Theological Theses · §1390 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

A breviary prayer speaks to the Cross apart from Christ

The restored Roman Breviary aims a feast prayer at the Cross as distinct from Christ: ‘O Cross … save the present throng.’

Latin

XXI. Nam in Breviario Ecclesiae Romanae, juxta Synodi Tridentinae decretum restituto, & jussu Pii Papae V. in lucem edito, reperitur haec ad crucem a Christo distinctam directa precatio, O Crux splendidior cunctis astris, mundo celebris, hominibus multum amabilis, sanctior universis, quae sola fuisti digna portare talentum mundi, dulce lignum, dulces clavos, dulcia ferens pondera, salva praesentem catervam in tuis hodie laudibus congregatam. In Festis Maii ad diem III. & in Festis Septembris ad diem XIV.

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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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