Theological Theses · §1155 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Rome grants daily venials coexist with justifying grace (Bellarmine)

Rome admits no one ordinarily lives sinless; daily lighter sins coexist with justifying grace.

Bellarmine vs Pelagians: grace is cast off by graver flesh-works, not by those venials.

Latin

XXVII. Primo enim ultro confitentur neminem in hac vita, saltem juxta legem ordinariam, absque omni peccato vivere; sed illos ipsos qui justificati sunt & justificantem gratiam conservant, obnoxios manere multis quotidianis, & levioribus peccatis; quae cum gratia justificante simul consistere possunt: nec illam statim excutiunt, quemadmodum excuti putant peccatis gravioribus, & atrocioribus, quae Apostolus carnis opera vocat. Quod ex professo probat & tuetur Bellarminus contra Pelagianos, lib. 1. de Amissione gratiae & statu peccati, cap. 5. & 6.

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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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