Theological Theses · §1071 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Scripture: free forgiveness; Christ's passion the sole merit

Scripture: God freely forgives all offenses; we are saved/justified by grace, not works.

Christ's passion and obedience unto death is the sole merit moving God to pardon.

Latin

XXXVII. Id manifeste Scriptura Sacra docet, dum ait, Deum gratuito donare nobis omnes offensas, Coloss. 2. 13. Item quum toties repetit & inculcat nos servari & justificari gratia, per Dei gratiam, & non ex operibus, Rom. 3. Ephes. 2. Tit. 3. Nec enim cuiquam dubium esse potest, quin salus illa & justifi-catio remissionem peccatorum includat. Adeoque Christi passio & obedientia usque ad mortem crucis, unicum est illud meritum quo Deus movetur ad nobis largiendam delictorum veniam, nosque a peccati reatu liberandos. Unde est quod Apostolus ait, Nos in Christo habere redemptionem per sanguinem ejus, id est, remissionem peccatorum: nosque justificari per redemptionem quae est in Christo Jesu; quem proposuit Deus pro-pitiationem per fidem in sanguine ipsius.

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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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