Theological Theses · §2433 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Grace that makes pleasing does not precede God's love

Thesis XLIV. When these doctors name the other species grace that makes pleasing, their reason is not that it precedes every act of divine love toward us, or that it is the cause by which God is first moved to wish us well.

The Reformed rightly judge that to be false and absurd, since God loves us before we love him.

Latin

XLIV. Alteram vero gratiae speciem Doctores iidem non ideo nominant gratiam gratum facientem, quod praecedat omnem actum dilectionis divinae erga nos, & sit causa qua Deus primum movetur ut nobis bene velit; id quod Reformati merito falsum & absurdum judicant: cum Deus prius diligat nos, quam illum diligamus.

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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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