Theological Theses · §1267 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Common School: venial stain in the damned persists forever—no repentance there

Against Scotus, the common line keeps venial punishment perpetual in the damned—no repentance can clear the stain there.

While the stain remains, even light fault keeps them worthy of endless penalty.

Latin

XXI. Sed communis Scholae Romanae sententia contrarium tenet, scilicet, poenam peccati venialis in damnatis fore perpetuam. Idque quoniam peccatum quodvis quantumlibet leve, hominem supplicio & poena dignum reddit, quamdiu in eo manet, & nisi per poenitentiam aliquam retractatum & expiatum non est. Jam autem in damnatis nulla datur poenitentia, & peccati expiatio: adeoque in iis perpetuae manent maculae ex peccatis etiam venialibus contractae. Nec enim ullum omnino peccatum per aliquem dilectionis, sive contritionis actum retractare possunt: quoniam ista locum in inferno non habent. Et sic cum peccati venialis macula & pravitas aeternum in iis perseveret, in aeternum quoque per eam supplicio & poena digni manent.

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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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