Theological Theses · §2593 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Calixtus: hearing and weighing the Gospel is not above nature

Thesis XI. What the same author teaches elsewhere agrees with this. 'Note,' he writes, 'that once God has revealed the Gospel and has it preached by people far and wide among people, it is not beyond the strength of nature for someone to hear the Gospel, grasp it, think it over, and set it beside what others, Jews for instance or Muslims, put forward as revealed by God.'

This is in his judgment on the theological controversies in dispute between the Lutherans and the Reformed, number 33.

Latin

XI. Quibus consona sunt ea quae alibi tradit idem autor. Id autem observandum est, inquit, posito quod Deus Evangelium revelaverit, & passim inter homines praedicari faciat per homines, non esse supra vires naturae quod quis Evangelium audiat, concipiat, consideret, & cum iis quae ab aliis, Judaeis puta vel Mahumetanis, tanquam divinitus revelata proferuntur comparet. In judicio de controversiis Theologicis quae inter Lutheranos & Reformatos agitantur, num. 33.

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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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