Theological Theses · §707 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Ames: five concurrents — faith properly in pious affection, rest, and apprehension

Ames: five things concur in divine faith.

Knowledge of what God attests; pious affection toward God; assent; rest in God; choice/apprehension of the good shown.

Knowledge required but does not constitute faith; assent is an effect.

Faith properly = pious affection + rest in God + apprehension of the proposed good.

Latin

XXXI. Amesius autem sic ea de re Philosophatur: Ad fidem divinam, inquit, quinque ista concurrunt: 1. Notitia rei a Deo testatae; 2. Affectio pia erga Deum, quae facit ut maxime valeat apud nos ipsius testimonium; 3. Assensus qui praebetur veritati testatae, propter hanc affectionem erga Deum, ejus est ejus testis; 4. Acquiescentia in Deum ad illud quod proponitur consequendum; 5. Electio vel apprehensio rei ipsius, quae in testimonio nobis exhibetur. Primum, nempe, notitia ex ejus mente, ad fidem requiritur, sed illam non constituit. Tertium, scilicet, assensum vult esse effectum fidei. Adeoque docet fidem proprie consistere in tribus reliquis, videlicet in pia illa affectione, acquiescentia in Deum, & apprehensione boni, quod nobis in Verbo Dei proponitur. In Medulla Theologiae lib. 1. cap. 3.

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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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