Theological Theses · §588 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Fallen-object party — effects are saving means; Christ chief

Fallen-object party: creation and fall-permission are not effects.

Effects = means freeing from sin unto eternal life.

First/chief: gift and mission of Mediator Christ.

Latin

XXVII. Illi vero qui praedestinationis & electionis objectum constituunt hominem consideratum a Deo ut lapsum, ac peccato corruptum, quique non subordinant decretum creationis & permissionis lapsus decreto de illustranda Dei justitia & misericordia in horum quidem salute, in aliorum vero justa punitione, non putant inter effectus praedestinationis numerari debere hominum creationem, ut nec lapsus permissionem. Sed tantum electionis effecta esse volunt varia illa media, quibus Deus homines a peccato liberat, eosque ad felicitatem & vitam aeternam perducit: inter quae primum & praecipuum ponunt ipsam Mediatoris Christi donationem, & missionem in mundum.

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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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