Theological Theses · §642 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Not by rapture or enthusiasm — yet not without object-side ground

Spirit's work is not rapture or enthusiasm.

Moves as befits a rational free creature — nature-agreeing.

Highest faith-firmness not wholly from object-light — yet not reasonless.

Even object-side ground: dignity and gravity the mind duly weighs (as already shown).

Latin

XLIV. Nec tamen quicquam in nobis Spiritus Dei agit per modum raptus sive enthusiasmi: sed homines eo movet & impellit modo quodam naturae maxime consentaneo, & prout decet creaturam rationalem & liberam. Ac quamvis summa illa fidei firmitas atque certitudo, quam Spiritus nostris mentibus imprimit, tota referenda non sit ad objecti lucem sive evidentiam, nulla tamen ex parte ratione destituta est, nec caret omni fundamento etiam ex parte objecti. Siquidem nascitur ex rei ipsius dignitate atque gravitate, quam mens, ut decet, expendit & attendit, quomodo jam expositum est.

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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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