Theological Theses · §1342 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Second reason: after judgment every unrepented sin—even idle words—meets eternal penalty

Second proof: post-judgment, no temporal penalties remain—so idle words in the impenitent meet everlasting pain.

If God justly forever-punishes them, they deserve it; theologians already say he punishes below desert—so ‘mortal’ fits.

Latin

LXV. Praeterea peccata quaelibet, utut levia nobis appareant, post diem judicii, in impoenitentibus poena aeterna punientur; juxta illud Christi apud Matthaeum, Dico autem vobis, quoniam omne verbum otiosum quod locuti fuerint homines, reddent ra-tionem de eo in die judicii. Nec enim post diem judicii ullus locus erit poenis tem-poralibus. Si autem peccata quaevis possunt poena aeterna puniri, & de facto punien-tur in impoenitentibus, proculdubio poena tali digna sunt, & aeternam poenam me-rentur; alioqui Deus injuste ageret, peccatum puniens graviori poena quam ipsi de-beatur: cum contra communis sit sententia Theologorum, Deum peccatores punire infra condignum. Omne autem peccatum quod aeterna poena dignum est mortale dici & vocari potest.

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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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