Theological Theses · §628 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Many theologians — Spirit imprints more certainty than the motives carry

Escape: faith’s whole certainty does not hang on the motives.

Spirit uses motives, but imprints more certainty than they carry.

Summit referred to internal Spirit-testimony (hidden powerful operation) — Le Blanc has followed this elsewhere.

Latin

XXX. Multi Theologi, ut hinc se expediant, negant fidem hic reduci ad ista argumenta, sive incitamenta, ut inde tota ejus certitudo pendeat. Nam Spiritum Sanctum iis quidem uti ut nos ad fidem impellat, & adducat, sed menti fidelium majorem de verbo Dei certitudinem imprimere, quam per se argumenta istiusmodi ferant. Itaque summam illam fidei certitudinem referunt ad internum Spiritus testimonium, id est, ut jam explicuimus, ad occultam & potentissimam Spiritus Sancti operationem, qua immediate certissimam illam de verbo Dei persuasionem mentibus fidelium indit. Quod & nos in aliis Thesibus secuti sumus.

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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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