Theological Theses · §619 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Two conditions for any testimony to make the mind certain

Naked ‘divine authority’ reason leaves scruple.

Any testimony needs two: (1) witness worthy / cannot or will not deceive; (2) testimony truly his — not fictive/supposed.

Latin

XXI. Sed fatendum est istam Theologorum rationem sic nude propositam non omnem scrupulum ex animo tollere, nec per hoc inquirenti menti satisfieri. Ad hoc enim, ut testimonium & authoritas quaevis mentem nostram de re aliqua certam reddat, duo omnino requiruntur. Primo ut judicemus illum, qui testimonium perhibet, dignum esse cui fides adhibeatur, & fallere, vel non posse, vel non velle. Deinde ut certi simus tale testimonium vere ab eo perhiberi, nec esse fictitium & supposititium.

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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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