Theological Theses · §1468 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Claim that Jeroboam culted Apis is free invention—Scripture never says so; his craft aimed away from Jerusalem, not from Jehovah

Apis-in-the-calves is assertion without Scripture.

Jeroboam’s counsel was anti-Jerusalem, not anti-Jehovah—sudden Egypt-reversion is psychologically forced.

Latin

XXXVIII. Sed quod ad primum attinet, gratis fingitur, & dicitur Jeroboam & posteros ejus, in vitulis, Apim Aegyptium, vel nescio quod aliud numen coluisse. Nam Scriptura nusquam id affirmat; imo contrarium potius innuit, ut thesibus superioribus ostensum est. Nec est cur putemus populum, qui nuper tanta Dei miracula viderat, tam subito ad Aegyptiacas superstitiones revolvendum fuisse, praesertim quum Rex ipse id minime intendisse videatur, cujus consilium erat populum a Jerusalem, non a Jehova, avertere.

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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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