Theological Theses · §1963 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

A third objection: God 'expected' grapes and got wild grapes (Isaiah 5)

Scripture even seems to teach that some things turn out otherwise than God himself had supposed, since it says that people do some things contrary to what he had expected.

So God complains of the stubbornness and rebellion of the Jewish people in Isaiah 5: 'What more should I have done for my vineyard that I have not done? Why, when I expected it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?'

Latin

XII. Imo Scriptura docere videtur quaedam aliter contingere quam Deus ipse conjecerit, quandoquidem affirmat quaedam ab hominibus fieri, contra quam ipse expectarat. Ut quum Deus ita de contumacia & rebellione populi Judaici queritur, Quid est quod debui ultra facere vineae meae, & non feci ei? Cur expectavi ut faceret uvas, & fecit labruscas? apud Isaiam cap. quinto.

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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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