Theological Theses · §1554 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Private only, yet not disapproved: sainted speakers, approved books, pastors fostering popular devotion

These sayings are private, not conciliar definitions—yet Rome does not disapprove.

Evidence: the harshest speakers are canonized; books carry episcopal and even papal approbation; pastors foster them in popular devotion.

Latin

LXXIV. Caeterum ista quidem a privatis tantum Doctoribus dicuntur: nec sunt authoritate publica definita, verum ea Ecclesia Romana non improbari, non pauca nec levia manifestum faciunt. Et primo quidem hoc inde colligitur, quod qui durius sunt ea de re locuti, in Sanctorum numero habentur, ut Bernardinus Senensis, Antoninus, Alanus, Bonaventura. Non leve quoque hujus rei indicium est, quod libri in quibus talia leguntur, sunt plerique Doctorum atque Episcoporum approbatione muniti, imo nonnulli Pontificum ipsorum. Praesertim vero quod ista magno studio inserta sunt & diligenter inculcata libris qui in manus populi traduntur, & devotionis plebis fovendae destinati sunt, idque non prohibentibus, neque reclamantibus, sed potius aperte faventibus Episcopis, & reliquis Pastoribus.

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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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