Theological Theses · §1070 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Remission is free, not merited by inherent justice

Inherent holiness does not remove need of free pardon for sins before and after justification.

Remission is not merited by any justice or preparatory works in us.

Latin

XXXVI. Sicut autem sanctitas & justitia illa, quam fidelibus indit Spiritus Sanctus, non obstat quominus egeant divina clementia, & misericordia, ad remissionem pec-catorum suorum, tam quae admiserunt ante suam justificationem, quam quae post illam quotidie admittunt: ita quoque remissio illa, respectu nostri, plane gratuita est; nec putandum est Deum nos in gratiam recipere, & peccata nobis condonare, pro-pter justitiam ullam quae nobis inest, sive propter illa opera, quibus ad veram justi-tiam & sanctitatem disponimur: quasi opera quaedam nostra aut justitia nobis per Spiritum Sanctum impressa, meritoria essent remissionis peccatorum nostrorum.

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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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