Theological Theses · §774 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Refuge-fiducia: not formal when faith is precise; included in living faith’s aggregate

Refuge-fiducia (leaning on God / fleeing to him for life and salvation) follows the same rule as love.

Take faith precisely (apart from other virtues) → not faith’s formal act.

Take faith as living faith working through love’s aggregate → this fiducia is included as a part.

Latin

XCVIII. Quod spectat fiduciam primo modo acceptam, nempe pro actu illo, quo Deo innitimur & ad eum confugimus, ut vitam & salutem ab eo consequamur, de illa idem dicendum videtur, quod de amore jam dictum: nempe eam non esse formalem fidei actum, si fides praecise sumatur, & prout a caeteris virtutibus omnibus distinguitur, ac eis opponitur. Sed si fides sumatur pro aggregato illo variorum actuum, qui fidei vivae, & per dilectionem operantis nomine designantur, dubitari non debet quin fiducia haec partem ejus faciat, & ea includatur.

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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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