Theological Theses · §1446 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

No NT word marks the image-ban ceremonial—unlike the Sabbath shadow in Colossians 2.16

Colossians 2.16 flags Sabbath/feast shadows as ceremonial; nothing parallel softens the image-ban.

The NT never whispers that Christians may now cult God or saints in images.

Latin

XVI. Sed unde colligunt illi, praeceptum quo Deus prohibet ne imagines ullae colendae proponantur, positivum esse & ceremoniale? In quarto quidem praecepto aliquid esse ceremoniale, quatenus praecise Sabbatum, id est, septimum diem cujusque septimanae sanctificari jubet, colligimus ex Pauli Apostoli verbis disertis, Coloss. 2. 16. Ubi monet fideles non esse damnandos in cibo, vel in potu, aut in parte, seu distinctione diei festi, aut Neomeniae, aut Sabbatorum, quae omnia erant umbrae futurorum, quarum corpus in Christo est: sed ubi Christus, sive Apostoli tale quid significaverunt de prohibitione qua vetantur imagines ullae ad cultum fieri? Et num in toto Novo Testamento, vel unum verbum exstat, quo insinuetur Christianis licere Deum & Sanctos ejus in imaginibus colere, quod ante non licebat?

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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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