Theological Theses · §646 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Post-faith sealing is not the earlier operation that creates faith

This post-faith sealing (adoption and Gospel divinity via divine effects) is not the Spirit's creating infusion.

The creating work is what people commonly call inner testimony.

Creating testimony precedes faith by nature.

Experimental sealing follows faith and presupposes it.

Latin

XLVIII. Verum hoc Spiritus Sancti testimonium, quod intus perhibet adoptioni nostrae & Evangelici verbi veritati & divinitati, per effecta varia ac plane divina, quae in nobis producit, mediante Dei verbo fide suscepto & admisso, distinguendum est ab altera illius operatione, qua fidem in nobis creat & infundit, & quae etiam vulgo testimonium internum Spiritus appellari solet. Etenim illud testimonium fidem natura praecedit, ut patet; hoc vero fidem consequitur, & illam supponit.

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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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