Theological Theses · §1634 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Not sacrifice alone: Scripture condemns even the sacred kiss (Job 31)

Nor can anyone say that the reason the Apostle accuses the pagans of giving latria to creatures is that they offered them sacrifices, which everyone admits belong to the worship of latria. For Holy Scripture condemns the Gentiles not only for sacrificing to creatures, but even for worshiping them with a sacred kiss.

The holy man Job protests that he was innocent of this crime: "If I looked at the sun when it shone, and at the moon moving in brightness, and my heart rejoiced, or rather was secretly enticed, and I kissed my hand with my mouth" (Job 31:26-27).

Latin

LXXVII. Neque est quod dicat aliquis Ethnicos ab Apostolo accusari Latriae creaturis exhibitae, quoniam obtulerunt eis sacrificia, quae omnium confessione ad Latriae cultum spectant. Nam Scriptura sacra non solum Gentes damnat quod creaturis immolarint, sed vel eo nomine quod illas osculo sacro coluerint. A quo crimine vir Sanctus Job protestatur se fuisse immunem, Si vidi, inquit, solem quum fulgeret, & lunam incedentem clare: Et laetatum est, sive potius seductum est in abscondito cor meum, & osculatus sum manum meam ore meo. Job. 31. 26.

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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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