Theological Theses · §573 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Mendoza concl. 2 — no foreknowledge presupposed; all is medium of predestination

Mendoza Sect.6 concl.2: no future-foreknowledge presupposed to praedestinatio.

Everything God decrees/does/permits follows from it.

All ordered as means to Christ’s and the saints’ glory.

Latin

XII. Nam in Controversiis Theologicis, jam citata prima quaestione Scholastica de Praedestinatione, Sectione sexta, haec est ejus secunda conclusio. Nulla futuri praescientia praesupponitur in mente Dei ad praedestinationem, sed omnia ex ipsa sequuntur: atque adeo nihil prorsus ab aeterno decrevit Deus facere, vel in tempore facit, vel permittit, sive intendit, sive naturale, sive supernaturale, sive sit res magni ponderis, sive minimi, & fere nullius, quod non proveniat, sitque effectus, & medium praedestinationis electorum & Christi. Atque adeo omnia cadunt sub ordine divinae praedestinationis, tanquam media ad Christi & sanctorum gloriam ordinata.

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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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