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Spiritual joy in Christ is both Spirit’s fruit and believers’ commanded duty
Joy in Christ requires certainty of grace and is both Spirit-fruit and commanded duty.
Philippians 4 and Romans 12 make rejoicing a standing office of the faithful.
Latin XIV. Et certe gaudium illud spirituale quo fideles in Christo laetantur, quodque non potest esse sine certitudine de propria gratia, & ex ea sponte nascitur, non tantum est fructus quidam Spiritus Sancti optabilis, sed etiam fidelium officium. Gaudete, inquit Apostolus, in Domino semper; iterum dico, gaudete. Phil. 4. Et fidelium varia officia describens Rom. 12. inter alia ponit illud, Spe gaudentes.
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About this text Le Blanc wrote in the mid-seventeenth century as Reformed professor at the Academy of Sedan. This is not a patristic work.
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.
Date 1675 AD (Sedan theses; London collection)
No modern English.
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ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves).
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