Theological Theses · §585 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Some Reformed — object already called by external preaching

Some Reformed: object = fallen man already externally called.

Christ-sending / gospel-offer not inside the predestination decree.

Christ-mission-decree prior to efficacious leading of certain men to salvation.

Latin

XXIV. Sed inter Reformatos reperiuntur nonnulli qui electionis objectum constituunt hominem non lapsum simpliciter & peccato corruptum, sed praeterea jam ad gratiae Christi participationem & communionem vocatum externa praedicatione. Nec enim decretum de Christo Redemptore mittendo, & de gratia ejus per verbi praedicationem hominibus offerenda, volunt facere partem decreti praedestinationis, & subordinari decreto de hisce illis hominibus aeterna salute donandis. Quin potius statuunt, secundum nostrum concipiendi modum, Deum prius decrevisse Christum in mundum mittere, quam certos quosdam homines ad vitam & salutem per veram in Christum fidem efficaciter perducere.

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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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