Theological Theses · §542 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Bellarmine — predestination vs execution; per opera praevisa

Bellarmine: predestination ≠ execution.

Loved without foresight of works; works = path of execution.

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Latin

XV. Haec est inter alios sententia Bellarmini. Nam libro secundo de Gratia & libero arbitrio cap. 13. Respondens ad quintum testimonium, Alia, inquit, est praedestinatio, alia executio. Constituit enim Deus in praedestinatione, regnum caelorum dare certis hominibus quos absque ulla operum praevisione dilexit: tamen simul constituit, ut via ad executionem, via perveniendi ad regnum, essent bona opera. Itaque illa propositio, Deus ab aeterno praedestinavit hominibus dare regnum per opera bona praevisa, potest & vera esse & falsa. Nam si illud, per opera praevisa, referatur ad verbum, praedestinavit, falsa erit: significabit enim Deum praedestinasse homines, quia opera illorum bona praeviderat: si referatur ad verbum, dare, vera erit: quia significabit executionem futuram esse per opera bona, sive, quod idem est, glorificationem effectum esse justificationis, & operum bonorum, sicut ipsa justificatio effectum est vocationis, & vocatio praedestinationis.

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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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