Theological Theses · §1531 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

The Roman Catechism: ask God to give, ask Saints to pray

Trent Catechism: God and Saints are not asked the same way.

Ask God to give goods or free from evils; ask Saints, favorable with Godto take patronage and obtain from Him.

Formulas: to God ‘Have mercy / Hear us’; to a Saint ‘Pray for us.’

Latin

LI. Atque haec quidem sunt quibus Scholae Romanae Doctores invocationem Sanctorum superstruunt. Caeterum quomodo Sancti sint invocandi, & quod discrimen sit inter invocationem illam, quam Deus sibi, ut propriam vindicat, & eam qua Sanctorum auxilium imploramus, sic exponit Catechismus ex Decreto Concilii Tridentini editus. Non enim, inquit, eodem modo Deum, & Sanctos ejus imploramus. Nam precamur Deum ut ipse vel bona det, vel liberet a malis; a Sanctis autem, quia gratiosi sunt apud Deum, petimus ut nostri patrocinium suscipiant, ut nobis a Deo impetrent ea quorum indigemus. Hinc duas adhibemus formulas modo differentes: ad Deum enim proprie dicimus, Miserere nobis, Audi nos; ad Sanctum, Ora pro nobis. Catech. Rom. part. 4. cap. 6. Sect. 1. num. 3.

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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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