Theological Theses · §704 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Musculus: believe about God, believe God, believe in God

Musculus: three degrees/parts — explained differently.

1. Believe certain things about God, Christ, and the Spirit.

2. Believe God — credit His word as infallible Word of God.

3. Believe in God — direct all hope to Him; depend with firm trust on His goodness.

Latin

XXVIII. Musculus similiter fidei tres gradus sive partes assignat. Sed illas aliter explicat. Prima pars fidei ipsi est qua quaedam de Deo credimus: Veluti, quod sit Deus, quod sit unicus, omnipotens coeli & terrae creator, &c. Quod Christus sit Dei filius unigenitus, verus Deus, & verus homo, Redemptor & Mediator noster, &c. Et quod Spiritus Sanctus sit divinitate Patri & Filio aequalis, mentium illuminator, paracletus, doctor, consolator, &c. Secunda fidei pars est qua credimus Deo, hoc est, verbo ejus fidem adhibemus, tanquam Dei Verbo, de cujus veritate prorsus infallibili impium sit dubitare. Tertia fidei pars est qua credimus in Deum. Credere autem in Deum dicit esse spem omnem in Deum dirigere, firmaque fiducia ab illius bonitate pendere. In locis communibus Sacrae Theologiae, loco communi de Fide.

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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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