Theological Theses · §1343 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Third reason: what may never be remitted may justly be forever punished—even in the just, absolutely speaking

Third proof: never-remissible, therefore justly forever-punishable.

Remission is mercy by definition—so absolutely, even for the just, God could withhold pardon of the lightest faults and punish them forever.

Latin

LXVI. Tertio peccata quae dicuntur venialia, ex se poenam aeternam mereri sic probatur, Quod potest nunquam remitti, potest in aeternum puniri, idque juste. Peccata autem quaevis, etiam levissima, in quacunque tandem persona reperiantur, ab-solute loquendo, possent nunquam remitti: quoniam peccatum quodvis, quum a Deo remittitur, ex misericordia & gratia remittitur; quod importat ipsum nomen remis-sionis. Quicquid autem Deus ex gratia & misericordia facit, id simpliciter & absolute loquendo, posset non facere: & proinde ipsis justis, simpliciter loquendo, & sine respectu ad promissiones in Evangelio gratuito factas, posset Deus ipsa levissima peccata non remittere, adeoque illa in aeternum punire.

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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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