Theological Theses · §532 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Opinion 1 — moral works before justifying grace

First opinion: pre-grace moral works as meritorious cause.

Foresaw natural free-choice goodness → congruous grace.

Named: Thomas of Argentina, Gabriel, Ockham, Javellus.

Latin

V. Super qua re variae sunt & fuerunt in Schola Romana sententiae. Primo enim reperti sunt Scholastici nonnulli, qui existimarunt causam meritoriam praedestinationis, quoad omnes ejus effectus esse bona opera moralia antecedentia gratiam justificationis. Nempe Deum ab aeterno ad gratiam & salutem aeternam elegisse, quos praevidit, citra gratiam ullam supernaturalem, ex liberi arbitrii viribus bene acturos moraliter, & sic sese ad gratiam quodammodo praeparaturos: Deumque ad illam dandam ex congruitate quadam invitaturos esse. Hanc sententiam tribuit Gregorius de Valentia Thomae de Argentina, Gabrieli, & Occam veteribus Scholasticis: itemque Chrysostomo Javello Dominicano, qui superiori saeculo scribebat.

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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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