Theological Theses · §531 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Adults only — infants have no election-cause in them

Scope: adults only.

Infants: nothing in them as election’s cause/condition.

Need a cause tied always to predestination’s effects.

Latin

IV. Quae quaestio solos adultos respicit. Nam quod spectat ad parvulos ante usum rationis ex hac vita decedentes, in Schola Romana certum apud omnes habetur nihil esse in ipsis, quod possit esse causa, vel conditio electionis illorum. Adeoque tota controversia est An in illis praedestinatis qui adulta aetate ex hac vita migrant, possit assignari aliqua causa ullo modo meritoria, seu aliqua ratio praedestinationis & electionis ipsorum, quoad omnes ejus effectus? Et quidem talis causa, vel conditio quae semper habeat certam connexionem cum praedestinatione.

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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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Reference

ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves).

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