Theological Theses · §1063 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Bellarmine: infused virtues still need daily remission

Bellarmine: infused virtues are perfect in a way yet must daily be perfected; they need daily remission of venials.

Habitual justice makes us just absolutely; actual justice is somehow imperfect by venial mixture.

Latin

XXIX. Bellarminus vero non minus aperte significat quo sensu renatorum justitiam & sanctitatem perfectam & absolutam vocet, lib. 2. de Justif. cap. 13. nam ibi fatetur virtutes infusas, quibus fidelium justitia constat, ita suo quodam modo perfectas esse, ut quotidie magis ac magis perfici debeant. Et paulo post subjungit virtutem semel infusam egere quotidie nova remissione peccati. Justi enim, inquit, tametsi multa bona & justa opera faciunt, tamen saepe etiam labuntur in peccata levia & venialia. Capite vero sequenti justitiam habitualem, ita & non aliter perfectam esse asserit, ut per eam abso-lute, simpliciter, & proprie justi nominemur & simus. De justitia vero actuali sic loquitur, Quamvis aliquo modo sit imperfecta, propter admixtionem venialium delictorum, & egeat quotidiana remissione peccati; tamen, non propterea desinit esse vera justitia, & sua etiam quodam modo perfecta.

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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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