Theological Theses · §1144 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Cleansing is gradual; perfect holiness grows (2 Cor 7; Rev 22)

Cleansing is not once-for-all total; it advances by degrees.

Paul urges sharers of grace to perfect sanctification (2 Corinthians 7); Revelation 22: the righteous and holy still grow.

Latin

XVI. Porro ista a peccatis purgatio & emundatio tota simul & semel non fit, sed sensim & per gradus varios promovetur. Unde est quod Apostolus illos ipsos quos supponit gratiae Christi participes, & quorum numero ipse se includit, hortatur ut se magis ac magis mundent, & perficiant sanctificationem. Has ergo, inquit, habentes promissiones, charissimi, mundemus nos ab omni inquinamento carnis & spiritus, sanctificationem perficientes in timore Dei. 2 Cor. 7. Quo spectat illud Apocalypseos, Qui justus est justificetur adhuc; & sanctus est sanctificetur adhuc. Apoc. 22.

Report a mistake in this passage

About this text

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)

No modern English.

Reference

ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves).

Printed text used

Translated from Latin (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
Also checked PDF of the 1675 (Latin)
Also checked pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
Also checked DjVu machine-read text of the 1675 (Latin)

We have not yet re-checked this work against its source. We made this study translation with AI help. No scholar has yet certified it as faithful and complete. Open Latin on any section, or the Latin source link, to see the source text. It is not a critical edition.

Report a mistake