Theological Theses · §1035 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Roman calumny: Protestants deny inherent righteousness

Roman doctors charge Protestants with denying all internal inherent righteousness and Spirit-wrought renovation.

Bellarmine and Becanus pin on Calvin: only Christ's external justice imputed, nothing infused.

Latin

I. Solenne est Doctoribus Ecclesiae Romanae in Protestantes invehi, quasi nullam in fidelibus internam & inhaerentem justitiam agnoscerent, nec concederent ullam interioris hominis per Spiritus gratiam renovationem & sanctificationem. Sic Bellarminus affirmat Calvinum cum Lutheranis nullam inhaerentem justitiam admittere, De Just. lib. 2. cap. 3. Becanus eidem Calvino tribuit hanc propositionem, In justificatione non infundi gratiam & justitiam, qua homo interius renovetur, & in se fiat justus & sanctus; sed tantum imputari illi externam justitiam Christi, qua extra se justus esse censeatur. Vt Inst. Calvini, cap. 2.

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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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