Theological Theses · §442 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Hypostatic union — Colossians 2 requires divine substance on earth

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Faith: divine nature personally united to Christ's human nature.

Col 2: all fullness of deity dwells in Him bodily/substantially.

He walked earth — so divine substance was on earth, or the union breaks.

Latin

XVIII. Et huc etiam nos ducit fidei analogia. Nam ex fide certum est naturam divinam in Christo humanae naturae esse personaliter unitam. Et sic omnem plenitudinem divinitatis in Christo habitare corporaliter & substantialiter, ut docet Apostolus capite secundo Epist. ad Colossenses. Sed Christus secundum naturam humanam in terris diu versatus est. Ideoque necesse est divinam substantiam in terris etiam adesse, nisi quis dissolvere velit unionem duarum naturarum in Christo: aut dicere Christi naturam humanam personaliter unitam fuisse cum natura divina, etiam tum quum ab ea secundum locum distabat.

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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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