Theological Theses · §584 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Infralapsarian majority — object is the mass corrupted by sin (Dort)

Most Reformed: object = mass corrupted by sin (infralapsarian).

Creation-decree and fall-permission are not parts of total praedestinatio.

Foresight of fall before mercy-election — Dort-conformable majority.

Latin

XXIII. Verumtamen maxima pars Doctorum Scholae Reformatae Deo praedestinanti objectum fuisse volunt massam peccato corruptam, nec decretum de homine creando & de primo lapsu hominis permittendo ingredi volunt decretum totale praedestinationis & partem illius facere. Sed ex eorum sententia in Deo, secundum nostrum concipiendi modum, prius extitit lapsus hominis praevisio, quam decretum de misericordia in salute quorundam hominum exercenda, atque manifestanda: quod a Theologis vocatur electio, seu praedestinatio. Ac proinde, juxta ipsos, objectum electionis & praedestinationis est homo lapsus & peccato corruptus: neque in eo describendo atque definiendo supra hominis lapsum & creationem assurgere debemus. Atque haec sententia maxime conformis est Canonibus Synodi Dordracenae, illamque sequuntur longe plurimi Reformatorum, quorum nomina recensere & prolixum nimis & superfluum foret.

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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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