Theological Theses · §610 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Moral persuasion enough for life — parents, princes, magistrates

Ordering life needs no certainty above moral.

Most life-duties presuppose only moral persuasion.

Parents/kin and princes/magistrates: moral certainty still binds conscience.

Latin

XII. Adeoque majori certitudine non opus est ad vitam instituendam. Nec pleraque munia, & officia, quibus vita constat, aliam quam moralem persuasionem in nobis praeexigunt. Nam verbi causa, tantum moraliter certi sumus hos esse nostros parentes cognatos & consanguineos, illos vero esse nostros principes, atque magistratus, quibus tamen in conscientia tenemur ea praestare, quae ejusmodi gradus & dignitas, aut sanguinis conjunctio, jure divino & humano exigit.

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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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