Theological Theses · §847 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Implicit Church-faith alone insufficient; explicit Creed articles required for salvation

Rome concedes that merely believing in general what the Church believes, with no explicit grasp of any mystery, does not suffice for salvation.

Private persons may hold many dogmas only implicitly, but each believer needs some express explicit cognition of at least the principal Creed articles; that cognition may still be crude and confused...

Latin

XXVII. Ultro quoque concedunt ad salutem non sufficere, ut aliquis generatim & implicite credat quod Ecclesia credit, etiamsi nullius mysteriorum divinorum expressam & explicitam cognitionem habeat. Quanquam enim doceant, respectu multorum fidei dogmatum, privatis sufficere generalem quandam & implicitam fidem, nihilominus requirunt in fidelibus singulis, tanquam ad salutem necessariam, cognitionem aliquam expressam & explicitam primorum saltem & praecipuorum fidei articulorum, cujus generis sunt qui Apostolorum Symbolo continentur. Licet cognitio illa quamvis explicita sit, rudis tamen adhuc & confusa maneat.

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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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