Theological Theses · §1592 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

What remains is pious memory, praise, and imitation of faith, hope, and the other virtues

Asked what honor of the Saints is left, Le Blanc answers from the Reformed doctors.

It is frequent pious remembrance, a high estimate, praise when there is occasion, and a careful recall of their virtues and great deeds.

Above all it is following their example, receiving their teaching, and striving to match their hope, faith, love, zeal, courage, patience, and humility.

Latin

XXXV. At, inquies, quid ergo restat ex Doctorum Ecclesiae Reformatae sententia, quo Sanctos honorare & colere possimus? Respondeo, juxta ipsos, honorem illum consistere in pia & frequenti illorum commemoratione; in eo quod magnifice de ipsis sentiamus, laudes eorum, quum se fert occasio, celebremus, eorumque virtutes & egregia facta sedulo recolamus, & in animum revocemus. Praesertim vero in eo, quod eorum exemplum sequamur, doctrinam amplectamur, & spem, fidem, charitatem, zelum, fortitudinem, patientiam & humilitatem, qua nobis praeluxerunt, toto animi conatu aemulemur.

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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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