Theological Theses · §857 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Common Rome: fiducia of mercy to be obtained is not justifying faith act but distinct from faith

Roman school common teaching: fiducia of pardon and mercy still to be obtained from God is not an act of justifying faith but something distinct from faith.

They urge this hard against Protestants in the faith-nature disputations of Bellarmine, Valencia, Stapleton, and others.

Latin

XXXVII. Praeterea communis Theologorum in Schola Romana doctrina est fiduciam veniae & misericordiae a Deo impetrandae non esse fidei justificantis actum, sed aliquid a fide distinctum; quod vehementer urgent & contendunt contra Protestantes, ut videre est in eorum de fidei natura Disputationibus apud Bellarminum, Gregorium de Valentia, Stapletonum & alios.

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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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