Theological Theses · §1345 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Fifth reason: every sin—even ‘venial’—offends infinite Majesty and deserves objectively and extensively infinite penalty

Closing proof: even so-called venial sin strikes infinite Majesty—objective infinite malice—and leaves an unending stain apart from mercy.

Due penalty is infinite in object and in everlasting extent; therefore every sin is mortal by nature under justice.

Latin

LXVIII. Denique omne peccatum, etiam illud quod veniale dicitur, infinitam Dei Majestatem offendit, ac proinde habet malitiam quodammodo, nimirum ob-jective, infinitam. Atque etiam macula ex quovis peccato contracta, ex se & seclusa Dei misericordia, in aeternum durat. Unde sequitur cuilibet peccato deberi poenam objective infinitam, quae nempe privet bono infinito; & praeterea, quae sit infinita extensive, id est, quae in aeternum duret, ut ita poena cum culpa proportionem habeat. Et sic peccatum quodvis natura sua mortale dici debet, utpote poena aeterna ex justitia plectendum.

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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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ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves).

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