Theological Theses · §1603 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Chamier: the general prayer of saints is likely but not proven

Chamier likewise takes up the question whether the souls of the saints pray for us in general, that is, for the Christian Church as a whole and for the whole body of believers. He declares that no certain argument establishes it, though he grants it has some likelihood, and he leaves the matter open for each to decide for himself. (Panstratia, volume 2, book 8, chapter 5.)

Latin

XLVI. Similiter Chamierus quaestione proposita, utrum Sanctorum animae pro nobis orent in genere; hoc est universaliter pro Ecclesia Christiana, & fidelium universitate, pronunciat id nullo certo argumento constare: quamvis fateatur nonnihil habere veri similitudinis; & rem relinquat in medio, ut quisque fruatur suo judicio. Panstr. tom. 2. lib. 8. cap. 5.

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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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ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves).

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