Theological Theses · §868 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Seeming clash: same species as dead faith yet dead faith profits nothing

Rome common teaching that saving justifying faith is not specifically distinct from dead unformed faith seems to clash with their own admission that dead faith profits nothing for salvation or justice.

Latin

XLVIII. Videri posset majoris momenti quod communi consensu docent Scholae Romanae Theologi; nempe fidem salvificam atque justificantem non esse quid diversum & specie distinctum ab ista fide mortua & informi; quod etiam non satis concordare videtur cum eo quod jamjam diximus eos fateri atque agnoscere, nimirum fidem mortuam & informem ad salutem nihil prodesse, & ad justitiam esse inutilem. Quomodo enim ista constare possunt, fidem mortuam nihil ad salutem prodesse, & tamen illam esse unicam & eandem cum fide salvifica atque justificante, nec ab ea specie distingui?

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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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