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Assent without legitimate object-ground is blind obstinacy, not true certainty
Mind-internal ‘certainty’ without legitimate object-ground ≠ true certainty.
Name it obstinate, blind persuasio instead.
Latin IV. Caeterum illa certitudo, quae menti quidem inest, nullum tamen in objecto legitimum fundamentum habet, veri nominis certitudo non est, sed potius obstinata & caeca persuasio.
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About this text Le Blanc wrote in the mid-seventeenth century as Reformed professor at the Academy of Sedan. This is not a patristic work.
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.
Date 1675 AD (Sedan theses; London collection)
No modern English.
Reference
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves).
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