Theological Theses · §358 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

So the world has a beginning — made by the eternal mind we call God

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Motion and time need a start — so the moving timed world does too.

Therefore the world was made by another.

Author: highest eternal mind — what all call God.

Latin

XXX. Quum igitur nec motus nec tempus ab aeterno esse potuerint, sed necessario sui quoddam initium habeant: manifestum est mundum, qui, ut diximus, est in perpetuo motu, & cujus duratio tempore mensuratur, ab aeterno quoque esse non potuisse, sed aliquod sui initium habere; ac proinde illum ab alio factum esse & productum. Quis autem tanti operis author censeri poterit, nisi causa quaedam non tantum potentissima, sed etiam optima & sapientissima, adeoque nisi summa & aeterna quaedam mens, quae ab omnibus Dei nomine significatur?

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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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