Theological Theses · §714 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Chamier: faith is in the will — to believe in God is to love God

Chamier: same argument — faith in the will, not intellect alone.

Every love is a act of will; faith is love; therefore faith is a act of will.

True faith believes in God = loves God (Augustine).

Latin

XXXVIII. Quibus plane similia leguntur apud Chamierum, qui etiam eodem argumento utitur, ut probet fidem esse in voluntate, & non solum in intellectu. Omnis amor, inquit, est actus voluntatis; at fides est amor; ergo est actus voluntatis. Fidem autem esse amorem, probat quia vera fides est ea quae credit in Deum: At credere in Deum est amare Deum, juxta illud Augustini, Quid est credere in Deum? credendo amare. Panstratiae tomo 3. lib. 12. cap. 4. numero 16.

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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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