Theological Theses · §270 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Mosaic books presuppose immortality and prove resurrection — Christ vs the Sadducees

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Graver still: they say Moses alone never contained all needful to salvation — immortality and resurrection are missing.

Immortality every religion presupposes: if souls die like cattle, piety is vain — eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

Moses' whole scope is religion and worship; soul-immortality is presupposed and openly drawn from that scope.

Particular Mosaic texts also prove resurrection: Christ vs the Sadducees cites I am the God of Abraham... — God of the living, not the dead.

He blames their ignorance of the Scriptures; if resurrection was only obscure then, clear distinct faith of it was not yet required for salvation.

Latin

XXVI. Sed aliquid gravius est quo putant adversarii se posse probare Scripturam, quamdiu saltem solis libris Mosaicis constitit, omnia ad salutem necessaria non continuisse. Nec enim quicquam ad fidem & salutem magis necessarium fingi potest, quam dogma de animorum immortalitate & resurrectione corporum. At, inquiunt, de dogmatibus istis tanti momenti apud Mosen nihil reperitur. Quod ad primum attinet, animorum nempe immortalitatem, dico rem esse quam omnis religio praesupponit. Etenim si a brutis eatenus non differimus, animaeque nostrae non secus ac pecudum, cum corporibus intereunt, nec quicquam hominis post mortem superest, frustra est pietas, & frustra religio: nec aliud restat, quam ut cum profanis dicamus, Edamus, bibamus, cras enim moriemur. Itaque, quandoquidem libri Mosis toti occupantur in tradenda religione & cultu Dei praescribendo, animae immortalitas a Mose praesupponitur, estque aliquid quod ex generali librorum ejus scopo doctrinaque in eis contenta indubitate & aperte deducitur. Sed praeterea sunt multa singularia loca apud Mosen unde non tantummodo animae immortalitas, sed corporum resurrectio probari & colligi potest. Nam utrumque Christus contra Sadducaeos confirmat ex illis Dei verbis, Ego sum Deus Abrahami, Deus Isaac, & Deus Jacobi, quoniam, ut inquit, Deus non est Deus mortuorum, sed Deus viventium. Atque adeo Christus Sadducaeos erroris hac in parte arguens ad Scripturam eos revocat, & illis ignorantiam Scripturarum exprobrat. Erratis, inquit, nescientes Scripturas. Unde manifestum est, doctrinam istam illis ex Scriptura notam esse debuisse. Adde quod, si ponamus doctrinam de resurrectione obscure tantum fuisse Mosaicis libris insinuatam, probari non poterit claram & distinctam ejus fidem etiam tunc fuisse ad salutem necessariam.

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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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