Theological Theses · §1181 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Absolute trust that pardon is already obtained is not the essential formal act of justifying faith

Weak true faith can temporarily lack absolute assurance of already-obtained pardon.

Therefore that assurance is not faith’s essential formal act.

Latin

XXI. Porro cum fides vera, licet infirma, saltem ad tempus consistere possit absque fiducia certa & absoluta de obtenta a Deo remissione peccatorum, & nostra per Christi gratiam reconciliatione, inde patet fiduciam istam non esse essentialem & formalem actum fidei salvificae atque justificantis. Nec enim fides justificans unquam consistere potest sine actu suo proprio & formali.

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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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