Theological Theses · §1514 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Oaths are latria-acts—yet swearing by Saints is allowed secondarily as divine truth shines in them (Thomas 2a2ae q.89 a.6)

Oaths belong to worship—yet Rome swears by Saints...

Scholastics allow it secondarily: swear by the divine truth shining in them (Thomas 2a2ae q.89 a.6), not by the Saints as such.

Latin

XXXIV. Porro Theologi Ecclesiae Romanae juramentum etiam numerant inter actus Latriae, sive Religionis, id est, cultus qui soli Deo debetur. Et tamen in Ecclesia Romana usitatum est per Sanctos jurare. Verum dicunt Scholastici licere per Sanctos jurare, saltem secundario; nempe, quatenus in ipsis divina veritas elucet. Et ita per Sanctos jurari, non secundum se, sed in quantum veritatem divinam crediderunt & observarunt. Ut apud eundem Thomam videre est 2.2. quaest. 89. art. 6.

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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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