Theological Theses · §2349 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Gregory of Valencia: God's motions and our responses

Thesis XXX. Gregory of Valencia, to make the teaching clearer, divides the motions that belong to actual grace into two kinds.

'One kind,' he says, 'consists of the motions by which God rouses, calls and invites our minds to turn to him through faith, hope, charity, repentance and acts of that sort. The other consists of the motions or acts by which we answer God as he rouses, calls and invites us, and open the door of our mind when we turn to him' (tome 2, disputation 8, question 3, point 2).

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XXX. Rursus autem Gregorius de Valentia, clarioris doctrinae causa, motus qui ad actualem gratiam reducuntur, in duo genera distinguit. Unum, inquit, continetur iis motibus, quibus Deus mentes nostras excitat, vocat, & invitat, ut ad ipsum per fidem, spem, charitatem, poenitentiam, & hujusmodi actiones convertantur. Alterum continetur his motibus, seu actionibus, quibus Deo excitanti, vocanti, & invitanti respondemus, & aperimus mentis nostrae januam, quum ad eum convertimur. Tomo 2. Disput. 8. quaestione 3. puncto 2.

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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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