Theological Theses · §2495 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Deliberate and indeliberate acts of love and desire

Thesis LVII. Note also that the acts of love and desire that affect the will are of two kinds. Some are deliberate and free, drawn out after weighing the matter, from a definite judgment of reason. Others are indeliberate and therefore not free: they spring up in the will all at once when some object is put before it, before the mind is able to weigh and deliberate.

Latin

LVII. Praeterea notandum est actus amoris & desiderii, quibus afficitur voluntas, vel deliberatos & liberos esse, qui praevia consultatione, ex certo rationis judicio eliciuntur: vel indeliberatos, & ita non liberos, qui nimirum ad objecti alicujus propositionem, in voluntate subito oriuntur, priusquam mens consultare & deliberare possit.

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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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