Theological Theses · §163 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Opening: Scripture sufficiently contains all that belongs to faith and salvation

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The Churches that left Rome in the last century hold this steadily: sacred Scripture sufficiently contains everything that belongs to faith and salvation — so that we do not need another word of God to fill what Scripture supposedly lacks.

Rome’s doctors and champions attack that claim fiercely. The dispute is serious; we take it up in these theses and a few that follow.

For clarity we will first state our Churches’ view as plainly as we can, then compare the adversaries’ view with ours so the real question stands out, and finally confirm the truth briefly and undercut the opposite case.

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I. Ecclesiarum, quae secessionem ab Ecclesia Romana fecerunt superiori saeculo, constans sententia est, Scripturam sacram, omnia quae ad fidem & salutem pertinent, sufficienter continere: ita ut opus non sit alio Dei verbo, unde ea, quae desunt Scripturae, suppleantur. Ecclesiae vero Romanae Doctores & propugnatores sententiam illam acerrime impugnant, estque ea de re gravis controversia, quam hisce thesibus & sequentibus aliquot tractare aggredimur. Ut autem distinctius & clarius id fiat, Ecclesiarum nostrarum sententiam quam dilucide & distincte a nobis fieri poterit exponemus. Deinde inquiremus in sententiam adversariorum, illamque cum nostra conferentes, manifestum reddemus quid proprie sit illud quod in quaestione est. Ac denique veritatem paucis confirmabimus, & adversae sententiae fundamenta subruemus.

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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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