Theological Theses · §1204 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Romans agree the just can have some certainty without special revelation; they differ on its kind

All Roman doctors grant the truly just some real certainty of grace without special revelation.

They disagree on its grade; Bellarmine counts three Catholic opinions.

Latin

XIV. His ita expositis, inter omnes Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae convenit, eos qui vere fideles & justi sunt, posse de propria gratia aliquo modo certos esse, & ad aliquam veram & legitimam de remissione peccatorum suorum, & sua coram Deo justificatione, certitudinem pervenire, etiam citra ullam specialem revelationem. Sed quae & qualis sit illa certitudo, & ad quod genus pertineat, inter eos non constat, & quaedam est in eorum Scholis sententiarum hac de re diversitas. Ut videre est apud Bellarminum, lib. 3. de Justif. cap. 11. §. Tres enim; ubi dicit inter Catholicos tres numerari de hac quaestione sententias.

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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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