Theological Theses · §1951 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

However God works in free causes, he leaves them the power to act otherwise

I am no less certain that, in whatever way God acts and works in free causes, he always does so in keeping with their nature and without any prejudice to their freedom.

So when he efficaciously moves human wills to one act or another, he does not take from them the power to act otherwise.

Latin

LIX. Nec minus apud me certum est, quocunque modo Deus in causis liberis agat & operetur, id facere semper ipsarum naturae congruenter, nec quicquam libertati earum praejudicare: ac proinde quum voluntates humanas ad hunc aut illum actum efficaciter movet, ab iis non tollere potestatem aliter agendi.

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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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