Theological Theses · §2476 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Its efficacy is absolute and does not wait for consent

Thesis XXXVIII. For this reason they also say that this grace's efficacy is absolute with respect to the good action and does not hang on the consent of free choice. For the good action to follow, it does not wait for free choice to consent but brings about that consent by its power, since it brings free choice under itself and is in no way subject to free choice's power.

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XXXVIII. Quapropter etiam dicunt efficaciam gratiae istius esse absolutam, respectu bonae actionis, nec pendere a consensu liberi arbitrii: quia ut bona actio sequatur, non expectat liberi arbitrii consensum, sed eum potenter efficit; utpote quae liberum sibi subjicit arbitrium, nequaquam vero ejus potestati subjicitur.

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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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