Theological Theses · §1962 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

A second objection: 'Now I know that you fear God' (Genesis 22)

And certainly it seems plainly to follow from God's own words to Abraham in Genesis 22 that he learns something new about the free actions of human beings.

After Abraham had shown himself ready to sacrifice his son at God's command, the Lord says: 'Now I know that you fear God, because you have not spared your only son for my sake.'

Latin

XI. Et certe Deum quiddam circa liberas hominum actiones de novo discere, plane confici videtur ipsius Dei verbis Abrahamum alloquentis, ejusdem libri capite vigesimo secundo. Postquam enim Abraham se paratum ostendisset ad filium, ex Dei mandato, immolandum; Nunc cognovi, inquit Dominus, quod timeas Deum, quia non pepercisti unigenito tuo filio propter me.

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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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