Theological Theses · §696 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Object of saving faith: all revealed things — principally the Gospel promises

Next: object, parts, and acts of justifying faith.

Object commonly: all God revealed in His word — faith refuses none when proposed.

Proper and principal object: Gospel promises.

Mercy and grace through Christ offered to all who truly believe and repent.

Latin

XX. Sed ut planius & manifestius fiat quid Reformati sentiant de fidei justificantis natura atque essentia, paucis exponenda sunt ea quae docent de ejus objecto, partibus, & actibus. Primum ergo quod spectat fidei salvificae & justificantis objectum, ad illud communiter pertinere affirmant omnia illa quae Deus in verbo suo revelavit. Nec enim quicquam eorum fides illa non suscipit, quum ipsi proponuntur, sed tamen proprium ejus & praecipuum objectum esse censent Evangelii promissiones, quibus misericordia & gratia Dei per Christum offertur omnibus vere credentibus & resipiscentibus.

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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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