Theological Theses · §1083 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Ames: the Reformed also admit dispositions that prepare for conversion

This does not clash with Reformed teaching from thesis 16 onward.

Ames: in every convert after reason's use, some dispositions ordinarily precede, in varying amounts

Latin

XLIX. Quam autem hoc non abhorreat a doctrina Reformatorum, patet ex iis quae ante docuimus Thesi 16. & sequentibus. Quibus conformia sunt quae satis prolixe disputat Amesius, Disput. Theologica de praeparatione peccatoris ad conversionem, quae subjuncta est ejus rescriptioni ad Nicolaum Grevinchovium, ubi disertis verbis Th. 3. asserit, in omni peccatore post usum rationis convertendo & regenerando, ex ordine praecedere dispositiones quasdam eo facientes, quamvis dispari gradu, secundum sa-pientiam dispensationis divinae.

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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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