Theological Theses · §1593 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Spanheim: Mary's honor is grateful thought, preaching of her virtues, and commendation of her glory

Spanheim's account of the honor due to Mary is also the pattern for other Saints.

First comes honoring remembrance that God, in sheer goodness, made her the mother of the Lord who is Father of all.

Second, preaching the virtues Scripture records in her, as an example.

Third, commending the glory and blessedness she enjoys in heaven.

Latin

XXXVI. Sic Frederico Spanhemio Honor Beatae Virgini Mariae debitus (ex quo de honore Sanctis aliis convenienti judicium fieri potest) est primo cogitatio & commemoratio honorifica insignis illius honoris, quo Deus illam prae omnibus creaturis pro gratiosa sua bonitate dignatus fuit, ut mater illius & esset, & diceretur, qui omnium Pater est, & Dominus. Secundo praedicatio virtutum ejus, quae nobis in sacris litteris describuntur, pietatis, charitatis, humilitatis, constantiae, & aliarum id genus virtutum, quae singulariter in eximio hoc Dei organo eminuerunt, & omnibus in exemplum proponi debent. Tertio commendatio gloriae & beatitudinis qua fruitur in caelis. Dubiorum Evangelicorum part. 2. dub. 48. num. 4.

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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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