Theological Theses · §1199 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Vasquez: fear can accompany determinate opinion; doubt is hesitation between both sides

Vasquez defines doubt as intellective hesitation between contradictories.

Fear is a reflex judgment that principles might fail—compatible with firm opinionated assent.

Latin

IX. Sic formidinem & dubitationem distinguit & explicat Vasquez: Omnis, inquit, formido sine dubitatione oppositae partis esse potest. Dubitatio enim est haesitatio intellectus inter utramque partem contradictionis, ita ut in neutra parte ei appareat convenientia extremorum inter se, in cujus cognitione assensus consistit. Formido autem non oritur ex dubio inter utramque partem contradictionis, si quidem esse potest cum determinato assensu opinionis: sed oritur ex judicio quodam reflexo, quo quis expendens principia, ex quibus deduxit assensum, judicat ea talis esse naturae, ut fortassis illud de quo est opinio in re aliter sit quam apparet: quod judicium esse potest extrinseca principia, & ita cum assensu determinato alterius partis reperiri supra monuimus. In primam secundae, Tom. 1. Disp. 200. cap. 8. sub finem.

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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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