Theological Theses · §1020 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Pontifical dispute: does faith merit justification de congruo?

Rome divided: Stapleton—faith merits neither de condigno nor de congruo.

Bellarmine/Vasquez—Trent bars only condign merit; congruous merit of faith allowed.

Latin

XLV. Inter se disputant Theologi Pontificii, An fides, saltem de congruo, non mereatur justificationem. Et quidem eorum nonnulli pretendunt fidem neque de condigno, neque de congruo mereri remissionem peccatorum, & primam quam vocant justificationem, qua homo ex peccatore & non justo fit justus, idque quia Concilium Tridentinum simpliciter excludit a fide meritum justificationis, neque ullam hac in re distinctionem adhibet; qui in sententia est Thomas Stapletonus prolegomenis in librum 5. de Justificatione. Alii vero putant Concilium Tridentinum excludere solum meritum de condigno, non vero negare quin fides de congruo mereri possit justificationem hominis peccatoris per fidem Christum amplectentis, quae est Bellarmini & Vasquezii sententia.

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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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