Theological Theses · §245 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Pars III opens: two questions Rome still presses against Scripture sufficiency

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Pars III opens by splitting the fight into two questions that travel together but are not the same.

First: are all things necessary to faith and religion fully and sufficiently in Scripture?

Second: is there, beside Scripture, another word of God in the Church, equal in authority, handed down only by unwritten tradition?

Rome denies the first and affirms the second, and piles arguments on both.

Latin

I. TOTA haec controversia ad duo referri potest, quae, quanquam valde connexa sunt, distingui tamen debent. Unum est an omnia quae necessaria sunt ad fidem & religionem plene & sufficienter in Scriptura contineantur. Alterum an praeter Scripturam sit in Ecclesia quoddam aliud Dei verbum paris cum Scriptura sacra authoritatis, quod traditione non scripta ad nos derivatum sit. Prius negant Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae, posterius affirmant, & suam, circa utrumque, sententiam multis argumentis confirmare conantur.

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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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