Theological Theses · §1169 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

The Spirit’s peace and joy in believers imply persuasion of divine favor

Spirit-wrought peace and joy cannot sit with doubt that one is accepted by God.

Believers who taste that joy may rightly conclude they stand in grace.

Latin

IX. Praeterea spiritus Christi in fidelium animis generat coelestem quandam pacem, & gaudium innarrabile. Nam ut docet Apostolus, Gal. 5. Fructus spiritus est charitas, gaudium, pax. Et Rom. 14. Regnum Dei est justitia & pax & gaudium in Spiritu Sancto. Quod gaudium & quam pacem experiri non potest, qui dubitat an sit Deo acceptus, & in ejus filiorum numero. Unde colligitur fideles qui tali gaudio & pace fruuntur, certo sibi persuadere posse se esse in Dei gratia. Neque enim quicquam delectare & exhilarare potest animum, nisi ex intimo & vivido sensu divini erga se amoris & favoris, & certa fiducia beatitudinis & gloriae aeternae.

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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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