Theological Theses · §1967 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

'Now I know': Abraham gave certain proof of his fear of God

When God says to Abraham, 'Now I know that you fear God, because you have not spared your only son for my sake,' he does not mean that he had previously doubted Abraham's godliness or had not known him well enough.

He means only that Abraham, by being ready at God's command to sacrifice his own son, gave a sure and unquestionable proof of his love and fear toward God. It was proof enough to convince anyone who had so far doubted the matter and had not been fully certain and persuaded of it.

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XVI. Quum autem Deus dicit ad Abrahamum, Nunc cognovi quod timeas Deum, quia non pepercisti unigenito tuo filio propter me. Significare non vult se prius de Abrahami pietate dubitasse, neque Abrahamum ipsi fuisse satis cognitum; sed tantum Abrahamum, dum paratus fuit proprium filium, Deo jubente, immolare, sui erga Deum amoris & timoris, certum & indubitatum experimentum dedisse, & tale quo posset convinci, qui ea de re hactenus dubitasset, neque fuisset satis certus & persuasus.

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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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