Theological Theses · §686 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Maresius, Wendelin, Alting: gift that fiducially applies Gospel promises

Maresius: faith = gift that rests in Gospel promises as true/sure and applies them fiducially.

Wendelin: elect believe divine truth; firm-will receive saving promises; apply Christ and all benefits.

Alting: knowledge of God’s grace in Christ the Redeemer + fiducial grasp applied to myself singularly.

Latin

X. Samuel Maresius in Systemate, loco undecimo, fidem dicit esse Donum, quo promissionibus Evangelii in Christo, tanquam veris & certis acquiescimus, easque nobis fiducialiter applicamus. Quibus concinit Wendelinus in Academia Anhaltina Theologiae Professor notissimus, docens, fidem esse id quo electi credunt divinae veritati, & firmae voluntatis affectione promissiones gratiae salutaris in Christo accipiunt, sibique Christum cum omnibus beneficiis ejus ad vitam aeternam applicant. Christianae Theologiae lib. 1. cap. 24. Thesi 4. Nec absimilis est definitio Henrici Altingii olim in Academia Heydelbergensi Professoris, cui fides est, Cognitio gratiae Dei in Christo Redemptore, & ejusdem fiducialis apprehensio, qua quisque fidelis illam sibi singulariter applicat. Locor. commun. parte 1. pag. 117.

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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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