Theological Theses · §1479 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Pagan confession: we adore visible images unto the honor of the invisible God—Recognitiones and Lactantius

Pagan line in the Clementine Recognitions: visible images for invisible God’s honor.

Lactantius records the same: fear the named gods, not the crafted things.

Latin

XLIX. Proinde profitebantur se in suis simulachris invisibilem Deum adorare. Nos, inquiunt, ad honorem invisibilis Dei, imagines visibiles adoramus. Apud authorem Recognitionum, quae Clementi Romano tribuuntur, libro quinto. Et similiter apud Lactantium, Non ipsa, inquiunt, timemus, sed eos ad quorum imaginem facta, & quorum nominibus consecrata sunt. Institutionum libro secundo capite secundo.

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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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