Theological Theses · §520 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Conversely nothing is properly vile — glory in animalcules

Flip side: no creature properly vile before God.

Very good even in the least.

Animalcules display power, goodness, wisdom.

Latin

XXIII. Rursus vero alio respectu dici potest coram Deo nullam creaturam parvam & vilem esse. Nam vidit Deus quicquid fecit, & visum est ei valde bonum, quam in minimis quoque ejus potentia, bonitas & sapientia elucet: imo maxime in illis animalculis, quae calcamus & pro vilissimis habemus: in quibus Deo placitum est virtutum suarum edere specimina, & quasi miracula, quae rite contemplantem in admirationem & stuporem dare possunt, & Dei gloriam non parum illustrare.

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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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