Theological Theses · §2527 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Grace and free choice as two parts of one complete cause

Thesis LXXXIX. On his view, then, God's grace and man's free choice are two parts of one complete cause of the act of believing, hoping or repenting as salvation requires it, and each such act depends on the influence both of free choice and of divine grace. From free choice they have that in their substance they are believing, hoping and repenting; from the influence of grace, that they are supernatural and of the kind needed for salvation.

So each of these acts is wholly from free choice and wholly from grace, but from neither as from the whole and complete cause, only as from a part of the complete cause. This is how that author sets out his view at the beginning of the disputation just cited.

Latin

LXXXIX. Igitur, ex illius mente, gratia Dei & liberum hominis arbitrium sunt duae partes unius integrae causae actus credendi, sperandi, aut poenitendi, prout ad salutem oportet; singulique ejusmodi actus pendent ab influxu tam liberi arbitrii, quam gratiae divinae: atque a libero quidem arbitrio habent, ut quoad substantiam sint credere, sperare, poenitere; ab influxu vero gratiae, ut sint supernaturales, & quales ad salutem sunt necessarii. Adeoque quivis eorum actuum, totus est a libero arbitrio, & totus a gratia: sed a neutro est ut a tota & integra causa, verum ut a parte integrae causae. Prout autor ille suam sententiam exponit, initio jamjam citatae disputationis.

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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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