Theological Theses · §659 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Adults: Jesuits — sufficient grace present to life’s end

Adult question splits even among universalists: is sufficient grace always present, or only sometimes?

Today’s Jesuits and most Roman doctors: present to every adult to life’s end.

Enough to avoid each presenting sin and temptation.

Enough also to convert and leave the state of sin.

Latin

XIII. Quod attinet autem ad adultos, illi ipsi qui docent adultis omnibus gratiam sufficientem dari, inter se non consentiunt, An gratia ista sufficiens perpetuo illis adsit, An vero iis detur pro loco tantum & tempore; ita ut aliquando ea destituti sint. Nam hodierni Jesuitae, & plerique alii Scholae Romanae Doctores statuunt adultis omnibus, ad finem usque vitae perpetuo adesse gratiam, qua & vitare possint singula peccata quorum occasio se offert, & ad quae tentantur atque impelluntur, & qua possint quoque ad Deum converti, & se ex statu peccati eripere.

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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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