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Aeternum with a start but no end — life and punishment
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Scripture often calls eternal what began but will not end.
Blessed life in Christ — eternal; judgment on the ungodly — eternal.
Matt 25:46 : eternal punishment / eternal life.
Latin I. Aeternum frequenter in Scriptura dicitur id quod principium quidem durationis habet, sed finem habiturum non est: sic beata illa vita quam Deus promittit credentibus in Christum, aeterna saepe appellatur, & aeterna quoque dicitur poena illa quae justo Dei judicio impiis & impoenitentibus olim infligenda est: ut quum tum piorum, tum impiorum finis his verbis describitur apud Matthaeum cap. 25. vers. 46. & abibunt hi in supplicium aeternum, justi vero ad vitam aeternam.
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About this text Le Blanc wrote in the mid-seventeenth century as Reformed professor at the Academy of Sedan. This is not a patristic work.
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.
Date 1675 AD (Sedan theses; London collection)
No modern English.
Reference
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves).
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