Theological Theses · §2332 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

What belongs to grace freely given (1 Corinthians 12)

Thesis XIII. Grace freely given therefore includes the word of knowledge, the word of wisdom, the gift of prophecy, the discerning of spirits, kinds of tongues, the working of miracles, the gift of healing, and the other gifts of this kind that the Apostle lists in 1 Corinthians 12.

Some of these gifts bring bodily benefits, as the gift of healing brings good health. But since the chief and final end of all grace freely given is the eternal salvation of the soul, the definition given above said that all such grace is conferred for the spiritual salvation of others.

Latin

XIII. Itaque ad gratiam gratis datam pertinent sermo scientiae, sermo sapientiae, donum prophetiae, discretio spirituum, genera linguarum, operatio virtutum, gratia sanitatum, & plura ejusmodi quae Apostolus enumerat capite duodecimo prioris ad Corinthios, inter quae dona quaedam sunt, ex quibus beneficia corporalia consequuntur, ut bona valetudo, ex gratia sanitatum; sed quia praecipuus atque ultimus finis omnis gratiae gratis datae est salus animae sempiterna, idcirco omnem ejusmodi gratiam, ad aliorum salutem spiritualem conferri in superius allata definitione dictum 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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