Theological Theses · §1515 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Singular ‘adoration’: bodily submission-signs; Vázquez defends sacred adoration of Saints as Catholic tradition

Rome pushes a named ‘adoration’: exterior submission from true inward reverence—prostration, genuflection, bare head.

Vázquez (on Thomas III) calls sacred Saint-adoration Catholic by perpetual use and tradition.

Latin

XXXV. Sed inter cultus Sanctis debiti partes in Ecclesia Romana non parum commendatur singulariter sic dicta adoratio, quae consistit in externis submissionis & reverentiae signis, ex interno & vero animi affectu profectis, qualia sunt totius corporis prostratio, vel inclinatio, genuflexio, capitis apertio, & si quae sunt istius modi. Haec est adoratio qua Gabriel Vasquez contendit & pluribus probare conatur Sanctos esse adorandos, In tertiam partem Thomae tomo primo disputatione 97. ubi sic incipit secundum ejus caput: opposita sententia Catholicae est, perpetua Ecclesiae usu, & traditione confirmata, nempe Sanctis deberi sacram adorationem.

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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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