Theological Theses · §1303 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Venial from cause: infirmity and ignorance obtain mercy more readily than destined malice

Second sense: sins of infirmity and ignorance are ‘venial’ as nearer mercy—Paul’s persecuting ignorance.

Destined-malice sins win pardon harder and more often meet eternal death; Rainolds backs the distinction.

Latin

XXVI. Similiter agnoscunt aliquo sensu venialia dici posse peccata, quae ex causa sua hoc habent, ut facilius veniam consequantur: quoniam non ex certa & destinata malitia sunt; sed ex infirmitate & ignorantia. Prout Apostolus ait se fuisse blasphemum, & persecutorem, & contumeliosum; sed misericordiam consecutum, quia ignorans fecerat in incredulitate. Unde Deus pater miserationum facilius est commotus, ut ei qui non ex malitia peccaverat, veniam largiretur. Et hoc sensu venialia peccata opponuntur iis, quae cum ex destinata malitia committantur, rarius & difficilius misericordiam & veniam impetrant, & saepius morte aeterna puniuntur. Quam distinctionem refert & probat Joannes Rainoldus Anglus de Libris Apocryphis, lectione 26.

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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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