Theological Theses · §647 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Roman doctors split: Jansenists deny any mere sufficient grace

Roman doctors do not all agree on sufficient grace.

Some reject sufficient-vs-efficacious: no grace is sufficient unless efficacious.

They deny sufficient grace to all — for conversion or for avoiding sins — since efficacious grace is not given to all.

Jansenius and his disciples: this fits Augustine.

Latin

I. De hac quaestione non omnino convenit inter Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae. Primo enim sunt qui improbant distinctionem gratiae in sufficientem atque efficacem, nec volunt ullam esse gratiam sufficientem quae non sit efficax. Illi vero aperte docent non omnibus hominibus dari gratiam sufficientem sive ad conversionem, sive ad peccata vitanda; cum planum sit gratiam ad ista efficacem non omnibus dari. Quam sententiam tuentur Jansenius & ejus Discipuli, ut Augustini doctrinae conformem.

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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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