Theological Theses · §904 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Chamier: faith is love, and so an act of the will

Chamier: faith is in intellect and will; syllogism — love is act of will; faith is love; therefore act of will.

True faith = believing in God = loving by believing (Augustine).

Latin

XIII. Hanc sententiam tenet Daniel Chamierus, qui probat primo fidem esse in intellectu, deinde etiam illam esse in voluntate. Et inter alia hoc argumento utitur; Omnis amor est actus voluntatis: At fides est amor: Ergo est actus voluntatis. Fidem autem esse amorem, inde probat quod vera fides est ea qua credimus in Deum. Credere autem in Deum, teste Augustino, est credendo amare. Panstrat. tom. 3. lib. 12. cap. 3. & 4.

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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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