Theological Theses · §922 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Next: faith's connection with love and works — Reformed: inseparable

Shift: connection of faith with love and good works.

Reformed consensus: true saving faith is inseparable from charity — light never without heat.

Latin

XXXI. Atque hactenus de fidei subjecto. Superest paucis exponendum, quid Scholae, tum Reformatae, tum Romanae Doctores sentiant circa connexionem fidei cum dilectione & bonis operibus. Et quidem Reformatorum concors sententia est veram & salvificam fidem esse a charitate penitus inseparabilem: ita ut vera fides in eo esse non possit qui charitatem non habet, & in quo Dei & proximi dilectio non reperitur. Quia scilicet ea est verae fidei indoles, ut charitatem & virtutes caeteras in anima fidelis necessario gignat, quemadmodum lux solis sine calore non est, sed perpetuo illum comitem habet.

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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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