Theological Theses · §1529 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Patron Saints by realm, craft, and need—Luke, Ivo, Crispin; sea, childbirth, plague, toothache

Every realm, town, and craft keeps a singular patron Saint.

Luke for doctors, Ivo for lawyers, Crispin for shoemakers; James for Spain, Mark for Venice.

Special needs: Paul and Nicholas at sea; Margaret in childbirth; Roch in plague; Apollonia for toothache.

Latin

XLIX. Porro in Ecclesia Romana solenne est ut singula regna, Urbes atque pagi, singula quoque collegia, tum artificum, tum eorum qui honestioribus professionibus vacant, aliquem ex Sanctis habeant pro patrono quodam singulari, cujus tutelae sese peculiariter commendant. Sic Lucas Medicorum, Yvo Advocatorum, Crispinus Cerdonum Patroni habentur. Et Hispania Jacobum Apostolum, Dominium Venetorum Marcum Evangelistam sibi Patronos pridem asciverunt. Et ita de caeteris. Ac praeterea quoque mos est, ut in certis morbis, periculis, & necessitatibus, ad unum potius Sanctorum quam ad alium confugiatur. Sic qui in mari periclitantur implorant opem Pauli Apostoli, & Nicolai Myrensis Episcopi. Margareta parturientibus, Rochus laborantibus peste, Apollonia illis quos torquet dentium dolor, peculiari quadam ratione subvenire putantur.

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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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