Theological Theses · §548 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Becanus — conditional vs absolute foresight; post vs propter

Becanus: glory-election from foreseen merits is more probable.

Splits: conditioned vs absolute foresight.

And: post praevisa vs propter praevisa — true in all modes.

Latin

XXI. Haec est sententia Martini Becani, qui postquam dixit multos ex Scholasticis sentire praedestinationem, seu efficacem electionem ad gloriam factam esse ex praevisis meritis, sequentia verba subjungit. Porro haec sententia, quae multo probabilior est, potest duobus modis explicari. Primo de praescientia conditionata, ut sensus sit, Deus, antequam efficaciter eligeret aliquos ad gloriam, praevidit per scientiam conditionatam, quinam bene usuri essent gratia Dei si illis daretur. Secundo de praescientia absoluta, hoc sensu: Deus absolute praevidit aliquos bene operaturos, antequam illos efficaciter eligeret ad gloriam. Rursum utrumque dupliciter intelligi potest. Primo Deus efficaciter elegit aliquos ad gloriam ex praevisis meritis, id est, post praevisa merita. Secundo, ex praevisis meritis, id est, propter praevisa merita. Nos dicimus omnibus modis veram esse hanc sententiam. In Summa Theol. tom. 1. cap. 9. q. 1. sect. 3.

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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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