Theological Theses · §462 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Psalms 102, 92, 90 — God remains; a thousand years as yesterday

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Ps 102: heavens perish like a garment; God remains the same.

Ps 92 / 90: most high forever; from age to age You are God.

A thousand years before God — as yesterday; no proportion to His duration.

Latin

VI. Istud autem Scriptura multis locis aperte docet, praecipue vero Psalmo 102. ubi Propheta comparans res quae inter visibiles maxime sunt permanentes, caelum scilicet & terram, docet illa aliquando habuisse initium, quum sint opus manuum Dei, & finem olim esse habitura: Deum vero permanere semper, & eundem perpetuo & fuisse & fore. Initio, inquit, Tu Domine terram fundasti, & opera manuum tuarum sunt caeli: ipsi peribunt, tu autem permanes: & omnes ipsi sicut vestimentum veterascent, & sicut opertorium mutabis eos, & mutabuntur, tu autem idem ipse es, & anni tui non deficient. Quam perpetuam quoque Dei permanentiam celebrat David, Psal. 92. Tu autem, inquit, altissimus in aeternum Domine. Et Moses vir Dei, Psal. 90. Priusquam montes fierent, & formaretur terra & orbis, a saeculo & usque in saeculum tu es Deus. Quo etiam respicit quod addit, mille anni ante oculos tuos sicut dies hesterna quae praeteriit: quia scilicet ad immensam & illimitatam Dei durationem, nec mille anni, nec quodlibet designatum tempus ullam proportionem habent.

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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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