Theological Theses · §1011 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Romans and Galatians: the law demands doing, the gospel asks belief

For Paul, justification from works = by law; from faith = without works.

Law demands perfect doing; gospel sum is confess-and-believe (Rom 10).

Latin

XXXVI. Hanc esse Apostoli mentem, agnoscet facile quisquis attente considerabit quae Paulus hac de re disserit in Epist. ad Rom. & Epist. ad Galatas. Nam Paulo justificari ex operibus simpliciter, justificari ex operibus legis, & justificari per legem, idem sunt. Sicut pro eodem habet justificari ex fide, & justificari sine operibus. Justitia autem legis, secundum Pauli doctrinam, in eo consistit ut quis accurate faciat omnia quae lege jubentur, quemadmodum justus ex fide est ille qui viva fide credit in Christum, quoniam tali sua fides ad justitiam imputatur. Nam opponit sedulo legem, quae fidem non postulat, sed perfectam obedientiam, & dicit, Qui fecerit ea homo, vivet in eis. Item, Execrabilis quisquis non manserit in omnibus quae scripta sunt in libro legis, ut faciat ea. Verbo fidei sive Evangelio, quod justitiam & salutem gratuito offert, utpote cujus summa haec sit, Si professus fueris ore tuo Dominum Jesum, & credideris in corde tuo quod Deus eum suscitavit ex mortuis, servaberis, Rom. 10. & Gal. 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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Reference

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

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