Theological Theses · §2091 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

This is Fonseca's teaching

Fonseca, among others, teaches this. He holds that before any foreknowledge of free acts, none of them were predefined from eternity, since otherwise the freedom of the created will would be removed.

After God foreknew future free acts in the conditional state, only the good ones were predefined by him, because only they have his approval. Evil acts are not predefined, but their permission, which God approves, has been predefined. Commentary on Metaphysics 6, chapter 2, question 5, section 7.

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XXXI. Haec inter alios est Fonsecae doctrina. Statuit enim. Ante omnem praescientiam actuum liberorum, nullos eorum ab aeterno esse praedefinitos: quia alioqui tolleretur libertas voluntatis creatae: sed post praescientiam futurorum actuum liberorum in statu conditionato, bonos tantum a Deo esse praedefinitos, quia eos solum approbat; etsi autem mali non sint praedefiniti; esse tamen praedefinitam eorum permissionem, quam Deus approbat. In 6. Metaph. cap. 2. quaest. 5. sect. 7.

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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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