Theological Theses · §2401 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

So the Reformed grant the gifts please God but do not precede his favour

Thesis XII. It is clear from this that the Reformed doctors do not deny that faith, hope, love and similar gifts of the Holy Spirit are things pleasing to God, on account of which the person who has them pleases God and is acceptable to him.

They deny only that these gifts come before God's favour and goodwill toward us. Rather, they are its effects and its gifts.

Latin

XII. Unde patet Doctores Reformatos non negare fidem, spem, charitatem, & similia Spiritus Sancti dona esse res Deo gratas, & quarum ratione homo, in quo reperiuntur, Deo placeat & gratus sit: sed tantum ista dona non praevenire Dei favorem & benevolentiam erga nos, verum ejus esse effecta & munera.

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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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