Theological Theses · §666 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Yet without internal grace, right use of faculties is morally impossible

Still: mind and will are sin-corrupted.

Without inward grace lighting the mind and bending the will, right use cannot happen.

Obeying the outward call needs that inward help.

Without it, obedience is morally impossible because of inherent vice.

Latin

XX. Agnoscunt autem istas naturales hominis facultates, nempe mentem atque voluntatem, ita peccato corruptas & vitiatas esse, ut nisi accedat interna quaedam Dei gratia, quae mentem illuminet & voluntatem flectat, contingere non possit ut homo bene utatur suis illis facultatibus, & pareat atque obsequatur Deo vocanti & invitanti ad gratiae suae extrinsecus oblatae participationem; quod illi propter vitium inhaerens, absque interna ejusmodi gratia moraliter impossibile 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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