Theological Theses · §1605 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Du Moulin: the blessed know the Church is pressed, and so are concerned for it

Peter du Moulin is of the same mind. "The blessed spirits," he says, "do not see what happens here and do not know individuals, yet they know that the Church is hard pressed by its enemies and faces endless struggles. Since glorification has increased their love rather than lessened it, it is fitting that they should be concerned for the Church Militant." (Treasury of Sedan Theses, volume 1, Theses on the Saints, part 3, thesis 3.)

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XLVIII. Nec alia mens est Petri Molinaei. Beati spiritus, inquit, etsi non videant quae hic fiunt, nec norint singulos, sciunt tamen Ecclesiam premi ab adversariis, & ei proposita esse perpetua certamina. Cumque ex glorificatione aucta potius sit quam imminuta eorum charitas, consentaneum est eos de Ecclesia militante esse sollicitos. In Thesauro Thesium Sedanensium Tom. 1. Thesibus de Sanctis part. 3. th. 3.

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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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ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves).

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