Theological Theses · §720 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Beza, du Moulin, Faius: fiducia differs from faith as effect from cause

Beza on Eph. 3: fiducia differs from faith as effect from cause — do not swap the names.

Du Moulin: faith ≠ fiducia; fiducia = inseparable fruit/effect.

Faius (Geneva): liberty of access and Abba-cry fiducia are effects of faith.

Latin

XLIV. Eadem fuit sententia Bezae, qui scribens in locum Pauli Ephes. 3. In quo libertatem habemus cum fiducia per fidem ipsius; inde colligit fiduciam a fide, ut effectum a causa differre. Ex hoc loco, inquit, apparet manifeste fiduciam a fide, ut effectum a causa differre, ac proinde a nonnullis perperam pro fide substitui nomen fiduciae, quamvis ista duo semper cohaereant. Idem quoque docet Petrus Molinaeus, Disputatione secunda, de Justificatione & fide justificante, Thesi 19. & sequentibus. Censemus, inquit, aliud esse fidem, aliud fiduciam, & hanc esse illius fructum & effectum inseparabilem. Quibus accedit Antonius Fayus, in Thesibus Genevae disputatis, Thesi 20. Libertas, inquit, per quam facilis patet ad Deum accessus, & fiducia per quam clamamus Abba Pater, sunt effecta fidei.

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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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