Theological Theses · §2382 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Freedom kept: the power to act otherwise in the divided sense

Thesis LXIII. They do not think this harms the freedom of the human will in any way. God's grace moves and determines created free choice to act in such a way that it does not remove its power to act otherwise.

So when grace is given, the will does act without fail, yet in the divided sense it always remains able not to act or to act otherwise.

Latin

LXIII. Neque propterea quicquam praejudicari putant libertati voluntatis humanae; quoniam gratia Dei sic movet & determinat liberum arbitrium creatum ad agendum, ut ab eo non tollat potestatem aliter agendi: ita ut posita gratia, agat quidem infallibiliter, sed semper in sensu diviso potens sit non agere, aut aliter agere.

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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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