Theological Theses · §1747 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Third reason: every natural faculty has its natural perfection, and for the moral faculties that is righteousness

Again, there is no natural faculty without a natural perfection that belongs to it. Man's moral faculties, which make him capable of virtue and vice, are as natural to him as his other faculties. What can their natural perfection be, if not the very righteousness and holiness now in question?

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LIV. Nec etiam est ulla naturalis facultas cui sua perfectio naturalis non respondeat. Morales autem facultates, ratione quarum homo est virtutis & vitii capax, homini naturales sunt, non minus quam caeterae. Qua in re autem earum naturalis perfectio consistere potest, nisi in ipsa justitia & sanctitate, de qua jam quaestio est?

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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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