Theological Theses · §1453 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Primitive Doctors: Decalogue is the moral-natural sum—only the Sabbath’s seventh-day rigor is ceremonial

Fathers read the Decalogue as the moral-natural sum binding everyone.

Only Sabbath’s exact seventh-day stoppage is ceremonial; sanctifying a holy day remains moral

Latin

XXIII. Unde est quod Prisci Ecclesiae Doctores communi consensu affirmant Decalogum nihil aliud continere, quam brevem summam legis Moralis atque naturalis, ad cujus observationem omnes communiter tenentur, excepto solum praecepto de sanctificatione Sabbati, seu diei septimi; in quo observarunt aliquid esse ceremoniale, nempe, praecisam & rigidam diei a creatione septimae observationem, & scrupulosam in ea cessationem ab omni opere: quamvis, quoad substantiam, & quatenus certam diem solemniter Deo sanctificari jubet, etiam morale sit.

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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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