Theological Theses · §1156 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Rome: remitted sins' stain wiped, yet vicious habits remain to be deleted

Rome says remission wipes the whole leftover stain, yet admits vicious habits remain after remitted acts.

Those habits are slowly deleted by grace—and that is part of sanctification progress (Bellarmine).

Latin

XXVIII. Deinde quamvis dicant Scholae Romanae Theologi in eo qui justificatur peccata tolli & aboleri prorsus, & quum peccata a Deo remittuntur relictam ex iis maculam totam elui: attamen non negant habitus vitiosos per actualia peccata contractos, etiam post illa remissa remanere, vique & auxilio gratiae divinae paulatim delendos & abolendos esse, eaque in re ex parte consistere fidelium in virtute & sanctificatione progressum, ut videre est apud Bellarminum de Amissione gratiae & statu peccati, lib. 1. cap. 13.

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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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