Theological Theses · §1519 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

No real contradiction: deniers refuse absolute supreme adoration; affirmers mean adoration below the supreme

Famous Jesuits say Saints are to be adored; many Romans say only God is—yet Le Blanc finds no contradiction.

Deniers mean absolute supreme latria; affirmers mean inferior adoration the deniers still allow.

Latin

XXXIX. Nec est quod quis miretur viros, ita celebres in schola Romana, ut sunt Vasquez, Suarez & Mendoza, aliique non pauci, palam asserere, tanquam veritatem Catholicam, quod Sancti sint adorandi; cum tamen id a plurimis in Ecclesia Romana negetur, multique contra fateantur Deum solum esse adorandum, nec se alium quam Deum adorare. Etenim nulla est inter eos propterea contradictio. Nam qui negant Sanctos esse adorandos, hoc intelligunt de adoratione plane summa & absoluta, qualis soli Deo competit. Qui vero dicunt adorandos esse, istud intelligi volunt de adoratione quadam infra supremam, quam priores isti Sanctis non denegant.

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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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