Theological Theses · §524 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Future foreknowledge — prophecy; Tertullian; Isa 41

Prophecy floods Scripture — including Revelation.

Tertullian: as many witnesses as Prophets.

Isa 41: announce the future — mark of the living God.

Latin

XXVII. Futura vero Deum praenoscere probant innumerae rerum futurarum praedictiones per totum Sacrae Scripturae corpus sparsae, & quibus praecipue Prophetarum libri scatent, ut liber Apocalypseos inter scripta Novi Testamenti. Ideoque scite dixit Tertullianus, Dei praescientiam tot habere testes, quot fecit Prophetas. Atque hanc futurorum praenotionem Deus ut propriam sibi vendicat, eaque vult a falsis Gentium Diis discerni, & pro vero vivoque Deo solum agnosci, quia videlicet, ipse solus futura annunciare possit, & reipsa annunciet: ut saepius apud Isaiam videre est, praesertim cap. 41. ubi Deus per Prophetam sic idolatria Gentium numina alloquitur, Annunciate quae ventura sunt in futurum, & sciemus quod Dii estis vos.

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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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