Theological Theses · §703 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Three acts commonly: knowledge, assent, and fiducia applying the promise

Most Reformed: three acts/parts of justifying faith.

1. Notitia — know God’s word at least as needed for salvation.

2. Assensus — assent to all God revealed.

3. Fiducia — believer specially applies the general promise-word to himself.

Ursinus/Paraeus Cat. Expl. 21; Wendelin; Tilenus; Trelcatius.

Latin

XXVII. Quod attinet ad fidei actus, Reformati plurimi tres fidei justificantis actus, sive partes distinguere solent. Primus est notitia qua verbum Dei, saltem secundum ea quae sunt ad salutem scitu necessaria, cognoscimus & intelligimus. Secundus est assensus quem praebemus omnibus illis quae verbo Dei revelata sunt. Tertius est fiducia qua credens generale promissionis verbum specialiter sibi applicat. Haec est doctrina Ursini & Paraei in Explicationibus Catecheticis, quaestione 21. Wendelini Christianae Theologiae lib. 2. cap. 24. Thesi 14, & 15. Tileni disputatione de fide justificante, Thesi 20. & Trelcatii quoque, loco supra citato.

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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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