Issue is common-consent dogma — not whether some Reformed gave occasion for the charge
The real question is not whether some Reformed gave occasion for the charge.
It is whether Reformed theologians teach those four points by common consent as received faith-articles nearly all subscribe — as the opponent claims. Le Blanc says affirming that is calumny.
Defense needs only many celebrated Orthodox Reformed who reject the imputation; a few who taught or seemed to imply it does not prove school-wide dogma while others contradict without being branded heterodox.
Latin
CXXX. Ubi diligenter observatum velim inter me & virum Doctum quaestionem non esse, An quidam ex Reformatis occasionem dederint ista ipsis imputandi? Nec enim Thesis asserit ista non posse absque calumnia ullis ex Doctoribus Reformatis tribui. Sed hoc quaeri, An Scholae Reformatae Theologi ista communi consensu doceant, tanquam fidei inter ipsos receptae dogmata atque articulos, quibus subscribant omnes hactenus noti & alicujus nominis Reformati, exceptis solum duobus vel tribus novis hominibus? quod affirmat vir Doctus. Et quod in Thesi asserui, & de novo constanter assero, non posse absque calumnia poni & affirmari. Itaque ad Thesis meae defensionem suffecerit, si manifeste ostendam multos ex Reformatis veteribus & recentioribus, qui scriptis suis sunt apud suos celebres, & in Schola Reformata pro viris piis & Orthodoxis habentur, quae nobis imputat vir Doctus rejicere & repudiare. Contra vero nihil egerit vir Doctus, etiamsi proferre posset aliquot ex Reformatis, qui, vel ista docuerint, vel saltem ea scripserint ex quibus videntur aperte deduci; dummodo sint qui contrariam asserant, & aliud hac in parte se sentire profitantur, nec propterea tamen pro Heterodoxis a suis habeantur.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.