Theological Theses · §1947 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Le Blanc: their modesty deserves praise; to define the manner of concurrence is rash

For my part, I think the modesty of these very learned men deserves the highest praise. To define with certainty the manner of divine concurrence by which the first cause cooperates with secondary causes seems to me rash and far too bold.

Our feeble understanding cannot penetrate and search out the abyss of God's power and wisdom, and the matter is neither adequately grasped by reason nor revealed clearly enough in Holy Scripture.

Latin

LV. Quantum ad me attinet, horumce Doctissimorum Virorum modestiam maxime laudandam censeo: & modum divini concursus, quo cum causis secundis prima cooperatur, pro certo definire mihi temerarium & nimium audax videtur, cum ingenii nostri tenuitas divinae potentiae, & sapientiae abyssum penetrare & scrutari non valeat: nec ea res sit satis ratione percepta, aut sat distincte in sacra Scriptura revelata.

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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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