Theological Theses · §326 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Rome: some Mass mysteries need silence — so they must not be written for the world

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Last dignity argument: some mysteries demand silence.

Scripture is read by the whole world — so Rome says those secrets must stay out of it.

Unbaptized may not watch the tremendous Mass mysteries.

Therefore, they ask, how may the same things be delivered to them in writing?

Latin

XXXII. Denique Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae pro traditione non scripta argumentum desumunt a dignitate mysteriorum religionis Christianae. Nam inquiunt, sunt mysteria multa quae silentium requirunt, nec decet ut in Scripturis, quae toti mundo leguntur, explicentur. Si enim ad videnda tremenda mysteria Missae non licet admittere ullos non baptizatos, quomodo licebit eis eadem scripto tradere?

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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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