Theological Theses · §2194 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

So Protestants do not deny a remote and imperfect power in man before grace

What has been set out so far shows that the Protestants do not deny that after sin and before grace man has a remote and imperfect power for works of piety and supernatural works.

By that name they mean the natural faculty of willing and refusing, which gives man a certain proportion to such works and capacity for them, of a kind found neither in stones nor in beasts.

Latin

XLVII. Porro ex iis quae hactenus exposita sunt patet Protestantes non negare, post peccatum & ante gratiam, homini inesse potentiam quandam remotam & imperfectam ad opera pietatis & supernaturalia. Et hoc nomine illos designare facultatem naturalem volendi & nolendi, quae respectu istorum operum proportionem quandam & capacitatem homini conciliat, qualis nec in lapidibus, nec in brutis reperitur.

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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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