Theological Theses · §890 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Love likewise: not absolute-faith act for Rome, yet included in living formed faith

On dilectio some Reformed deny it is a faith-act, others affirm; all Romans say love is not an absolute-faith act but another virtue.

Yet they freely grant living formed faith includes love, and credere in Deum means loving God and tending into God.

Latin

LXX. Similiter quoque res se habet de Dilectione. Nam vidimus quosdam inter Reformatos negare dilectionem esse fidei actum, alios vero istud docere atque affirmare. Omnes vero Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae in ea esse sententia, quod dilectio non sit fidei actus, sed ad aliam virtutem pertineat, nempe ut jam dictum, si fidei natura absolute consideretur. Alioquin ultro fatentur fidem vivam & formatam dilectionem includere, & credere in Deum, qui est illius actus, esse Deum amare, & in Deum tendere.

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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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