Theological Theses · §550 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

All Reformed teachers: nothing in man causes election to grace and glory

All Reformed Doctors: collective grace+glory election uncaused in man.

Merely and absolutely gratuitous — free will of God alone.

No motive in the elect; Only God’s good pleasure...

Latin

XXIII. Quod spectat autem Scholae Reformatae Doctores omnes unanimi consensu statuunt praedestinationis ad gratiam & gloriam simul & collective sumptas, nullam in homine causam, conditionem, vel rationem reperiri posse, sed illam esse mere & absolute gratuitam, & a sola Dei libera voluntate pendere. Deum enim dum hos & illos prae aliis elegit, & ad gratiam & salutem ordinavit, nihil in iis spectasse quo ullo modo moveri potuerit ad illos tanta benevolentia & favore prae aliis prosequendos, nec ullam hujus rei rationem afferri posse, praeter unicum ejus beneplacitum.

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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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