Theological Theses · §1152 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Roman calumny: Reformed allegedly teach only covering, not real removal

Rome (Becanus, Vasquez) charges that Reformed leave the justified inwardly unclean with only alien cover, even mortal works hidden.

Hold the orthodox explanation against that calumny.

Latin

XXIV. Atque haec sententiae orthodoxae explicatio probe tenenda & observanda est, propter Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae, qui nostros exagitant, quasi docerent in justificatis non tolli peccata, sed tantum tegi & non imputari: adeoque hominem, etiam post justificationem, manere in se immundum, injustum & impium, & solum censeri pro justo, pio & mundo, propter alienam justitiam ipsi imputatam: ac proinde omnia justificatorum opera esse immunda, spurca & inquinata, imo peccata mortalia, tametsi non obsint illis, quia per Christi justitiam teguntur & occultantur, ut videre licet apud Becanum Jesuitam, in Summa Theologiae Scholasticae, tom. 2. tract. 4. cap. 2. cujus titulus est, de Justificatione ex sententia Calvinistarum: & apud Gabr. Vasquez tom. 2. in 1. 2. disputat. 202. cap. 4. ubi affirmat haereticos, quos vocat, dogmatizare quod in justificatis peccata non vere tollantur atque eradicentur, sed maneant, quamvis tecta & occultata.

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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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