Theological Theses · §629 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Scruple — rational creature’s assent should not outrun its grounds

Naked Spirit-imprint story leaves a scruple.

Rational assent shouldn’t outrun its grounds (perception/signs/authority).

Else a reason-less grade — against rational creature’s genius.

Spirit works above nature, not against it.

Latin

XXXI. Verum ista sic nude & breviter proposita scrupulum aliquem in animo relinquunt. Sicut enim non congruit creaturae rationali, ut ulli rei assensum praebeat, quin ante ipsa per se veritatem ejus percipiat, vel ex quibusdam signis & argumentis colligat, aut saltem ad credendum moveatur gravi quadam authoritate: Ita quoque eidem congruere non videtur, ut certior sit ejus assensus quam possunt argumenta quibus movetur ad assentiendum. Alioquin in isto assensu erit saltem gradus aliquis ratione omni destitutus, ac nulli solido fundamento subnixus, quod abhorret a genio creaturae rationalis. Constituendum est autem Spiritum Sanctum fidem aliasque virtutes, sive virtutum actus in nobis operari modo quodam naturae congruo & consentaneo, & qui licet sit supra naturam, minime tamen est naturae contrarius.

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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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