Theological Theses · §1304 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Gomarus and Piscator: only the sin against the Spirit is mortal as irremissible

Some Reformed reserve ‘mortal’ for the irremissible sin against the Spirit—all else ‘venial’ as remissible.

That matches 1 John’s sin unto death and Gomarus/Piscator’s usage.

Latin

XXVII. Praeterea nonnulli Doctores Reformati venialia quandoque appellant peccata omnia quae possunt, mediante poenitentia, remissionem & veniam consequi: mortale vero illud quod remitti non potest, sed mortem aeternam necessario affert. Quo sensu mortale est solum peccatum in Spiritum Sanctum, reliqua vero omnia peccata venialia. Adeo ut haec distinctio, eadem sit cum illa Joannis, capite quinto primae epistolae, ubi distinguit peccatum ad mortem, & peccatum quod non est ad mortem: & cum ea qua Scholae vulgo distinguunt peccatum in remissibile & irremissibile. Hoc sensu peccatum distinguunt in mortale & veniale Gomarus in Syntagmate Disputationum Leydensium, disp. 13. thes. 10. & Piscator, volumine primo Thesium Theologicarum, loco 7. disp. 3. th. 64.

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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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