Theological Theses · §694 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Two marks: practical assent, and particular application of the promises

Reformed: two things mark living/justifying faith off from historical/dead.

Historical = theoretical — remains in the theoretical intellect.

Justifying = practical assent — recalls belief to practice; moves will and affections.

Historical: only general assent to promises; justifying: applies them to each believer one by one.

Latin

XVIII. Caeterum ex istis omnibus fidei justificantis & salutiferae definitionibus apparet duo esse quae, juxta Reformatos, fidem vivam & justificantem ab historica & mortua distinguunt. Primum est quod fides illa Historica Theoretica est, & in intellectu Theoretico haeret; fides vero Justificans est assensus practicus, per quem ea quae creduntur, quaelibet suo modo, revocantur ad praxim, & quo voluntas & affectus hominis efficaciter moventur atque afficiuntur; ut rebus creditis conformiter agant. Alterum est quod fides historica divinis promissionibus assensum duntaxat generalem praebet, fides vero justificans illas credenti cuilibet sigillatim applicat.

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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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