Theological Theses · §2529 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Not converted by freedom alone

Thesis XCI. In the same way, according to this Doctor, one must not say that when two adults have equal aids of prevenient grace, the one who is converted is converted by his freedom alone. That conversion does depend on freedom and is brought about by choice in its freedom. But it is not brought about by that freedom alone: the aid of prevenient grace cooperates with it at the same time, through the influence by which it takes on the character of cooperating grace.

Even so, when that influence is present and accompanies prevenient grace in dependence on the cooperation of choice, nothing more is required than the free cooperation of our choice. This is in disputation 40 on article 13 of question 14, in the paragraph 'Ad secundam'.

Latin

XCI. Similiter juxta hunc Doctorem affirmandum non est, existentibus in duobus adultis aequalibus auxiliis gratiae praevenientis, illum qui convertitur, pro sola sua libertate converti. Quoniam licet conversio illa a libertate pendeat, fiatque ab arbitrio pro sua libertate; non tamen fit pro sola sua libertate, sed cooperante simul auxilio gratiae praevenientis per influxum a quo sortitur rationem gratiae cooperantis: quamvis cum hic praesto sit, gratiamque praevenientem dependenter a cooperatione arbitrii comitetur, solum exigatur cooperatio libera arbitrii nostri. Disputatione quadragesima ad articulum 13. quaestionis 14. paragr. ad secundam.

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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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