Theological Theses · §440 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Isaiah 66 — heaven throne, earth footstool; same substance

Isa 66: heaven My throne, earth My footstool — cannot be boxed in temples.

Not a distant-seat interpretation; his substance fills the world.

Throne-sitter touches footstool too — earth gets the same substance.

Latin

XVI. Huc etiam referri potest quod legitur apud Isaiam cap. 66. Haec dicit Dominus, caelum sedes mea, terra autem scabellum pedum meorum. Quae est ista domus quam aedificabitis mihi? Et quis est iste locus quietis meae? Nonne manus mea fecit haec omnia? Ubi Deus probat se templis manufactis includi non posse, non ratione ducta a distantia loci in quo sit ejus propria sedes & habitaculum, ut somniasse videtur Vorstius: sed a substantiae suae magnitudine, qua replet universum mundum. Et certe is qui folio insidit, substantia sua non minus attingit scabellum quam solium ipsum. Adeoque Deus dicens caelum esse thronum suum, & terram pedum suorum scabellum, significat se non minus terrae quam ipsi caelo substantia sua adesse.

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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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