Theological Theses · §1532 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Bellarmino/Perron: no asking Saints as authors of grace—absolute prayer to God alone; relative ‘pray for us’ to Saints

Bellarmino: never ask Saints as authors of glory or grace—only that they obtain from God.

Perron: absolute prayer (author of goods) for God alone; relative prayer (‘pray for us’) for Saints.

Latin

LII. Similiter haec est assertio Bellarmini, Non licet a Sanctis petere, ut nobis tanquam authores divinorum beneficiorum, gloriam, vel gratiam aliaque ad beatitudinem media concedant. Adeoque, juxta ipsum, nihil debemus a Sanctis petere, nisi ut a Deo impetrent quae nobis utilia sunt. De Sanct. beatitudine lib. 1. cap. 17. Cardinalis Perronius Priorem invocationem, qua aliquis invocatur, ut ipse bonorum author: orationem absolutam vocat: Posteriorem, qua aliquis rogatur, ut pro nobis oret, orationem relativam, quae scilicet, non in ipso, sed in Deo terminatur. Et priorem illam quoque soli Deo reservandam, sola vero posteriori apud Sanctos utendum docet. Adversus Regis Magnae Britanniae responsum lib. 5. cap. 1.

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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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