Theological Theses · §687 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Bucanus: knowledge, assent, appetite — firm trust and personal application of Christ

Bucanus (Lausanne): knowledge, assent, and appetite for what grace’s word promises.

Firm trust/apprehension of salvation for Christ’s sake.

Or: mind’s knowledge and approval → heart’s desire and grasp.

True believers each apply crucified Christ and His benefits (word and sacraments) to themselves.

Latin

XI. Bucano vero Lausannensi Theologiae Professori, fides definitur, Notitia, assensus, & appetitio promissa in verbo gratiae, adeoque salutis propter Christum obtinendae firma fiducia & apprehensio. Vel, Ex mentis notitia & approbatione judicioque speciali, voluntatis sive cordis desiderium & apprehensio, qua Christum crucifixum cum beneficiis suis in verbo & sacramentis oblatum singuli veri fideles nobis ipsis applicamus. Loco 29. quaest. 7.

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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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