Theological Theses · §397 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

School axiom: whatever is in God is God Himself

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School axiom: whatever is in God is God Himself.

Follows absolute simplicity.

Anything in God that is not God would split and compose Him.

Latin

XXVII. Atque hinc quoque patet quam verum sit illud axioma quod in scholis tritum est, videlicet, quicquid est in Deo est ipse Deus. Nam hoc sequitur absolutam illam Dei simplicitatem. Etenim si aliquid esset in Deo, quod Deus non esset, necesse esset naturam divinam non esse omnino simplicem, sed quaedam in ea distincta esse, quorum unum non esset alterum: ac proinde Deum esse aliquatenus compositum.

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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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