Theological Theses · §1544 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Empire even over reigning Christ—old rhythmic prose and Paris Missal: ‘by mother’s right command the Redeemer’

They claim empire not only over creatures but over Christ reigning in glory.

Old rhythmic prose and Paris Missal: mother stands over the Son—‘by mother’s right command the Redeemer.’

Latin

LXIV. Neque tantum creaturas omnes Virgini tanquam Dominae proprie dictae subjiciunt, sed etiam imperium & authoritatem illi tribuunt in ipsum Christum jam gloriose in coelo Regnantem. Quo spectat vetus illa prosa Rhythmica, a nostris saepius citata, Gaude Matrona caelica, Tu ancillam Jesu Christi, Te vocare noli, Sed ut docet lex divina, Tu illius es Domina. Nam lex docet & ratio; Matrem praeesse Filio. Ergo ora suppliciter, Et praecipe sublimiter, Ut nos in mundi Vespere, Ad regna ducat suprema. Quibus concinunt illa veteri Missali Parisiensi inserta, O felix puerpera, Nostra pians scelera, Jure matris impera Redemptori.

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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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