Theological Theses · §643 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

After true faith, the word works: terror, peace, new creature

Another side: certainty grows after true admission of the word.

Word works hard: first sharp terror of sin and wrath.

Then sweet comfort — peace beyond understanding, unspeakable joy (Phil 4:7; 1 Pet 1:8).

Changes affections; frees from vice; renews whole man — soberly, justly, piously; new creature.

Latin

XLV. Verum adhuc alia ex parte certitudo quaedam fidei accrescit. Postquam enim aliquis Dei verbum admittit vera & sincera fide, verbum istud potenter & efficaciter in eo operatur. Nam primo conscientiam terret atque percellit acutissimo peccati & irae Dei sensu. Deinde illam consolatione suavissima mulcet, & creat in ea pacem quae superat omnem intellectum & gaudium inenarrabile: Phil. 4.7. 1 Petr. 1.8. Tum quoque hominum affectus immutat, pravos corrigit, turbatos componit, impuros mundat atque purificat: Et liberat animum a servitute vitiorum, ut libenter & alacriter Deum colat, & ipsi serviat: adeoque sic hominem totum intus & extra innovat, ut omni impietati & cupiditatibus mundanis renuncians, sobrie, juste & pie in hoc saeculo vivat, atque eo nomine nova creatura dici mereatur.

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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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