Theological Theses · §1535 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Martin, Benedict, Nicholas hymns: foster prelates, clothe with justice, grant perennial kingdoms and life’s aid

Martin’s hymn asks him to foster the feast, clarify prelates, and clothe us as he once shared his cloak.

Benedict: help climb the narrow way to perennial kingdoms; Nicholas: strip death’s losses and grant life’s aid unto glory.

Latin

LV. Ad Sanctum quoque Martinum cani solet hic hymnus, Martine par Apostolis, Festum colentes tu fove, Qui vivere Discipulos Vis aut mori, nostros respice. Fac ut quod olim gesseras, Nunc praesules clarifica, Auge decus Ecclesiae, Fraudes elude Satanae. Qui ter Chaos eviceras, Mersos reatu suscita: Diviseras ut Chlamydem, Nos indue justitia. Denique Sancto Benedicto dicitur in hymno de ejus translatione, Angustum per iter scandere largiens, Dona regna perennia. Et in hymno de Sancto Nicolao qui incipit, Exultet aula caelica, haec dirigitur ad ipsum precatio, O Venerande Pontifex, Pius nec tardus opifex, Cunctis qui corde credulo, Te quaerunt in periculo, Aufer mortis dispendia, Confer vitae subsidia; Ut post carnis exilia, Tecum simus in gloria.

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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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