Theological Theses · §1903 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

This seems to be the teaching of the Roman Catechism (on the first article of the Creed; Wisdom 8:1)

This appears to be the teaching of the Roman Catechism itself, published by order of the Council of Trent. Toward the end of its explanation of the first article of the Creed it says:

'God not only protects and governs by his providence everything that exists. He also so drives the things that move and act, by an inward power, to their motion and action that, while he does not hinder the efficiency of secondary causes, he goes before it, since his most hidden power reaches to every single thing and, as the wise man testifies, "reaches mightily from one end to the other", and so on.'

Latin

XI. Quae videtur esse Doctrina Catechismi ipsius Romani Tridentini Concilii jussu in lucem editi, cujus haec Verba sunt in explicatione Symboli ad primum articulum sub finem. Non solum Deus Universa quae sunt providentia sua tuetur atque administrat, Verum etiam quae moventur & agunt aliquid, intima Virtute ad motum atque actionem ita impellit; ut quamvis causarum secundarum efficientiam non impediat, praeveniat tamen: cum ejus occultissima vis ad singula pertineat, & quemadmodum sapiens testatur, Attingat a fine usque ad finem fortiter, &c.

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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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