Theological Theses · §928 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Rome grants living faith never without charity; Reformed grant fall from living love

Rome grants: living faith never without charity; no actually-saving faith without works of love.

Reformed also grant: once-living faith can lose love, cease justifying for a time, and leave the person unaccepted.

Latin

XXXVII. Vicissim Scholae Romanae Doctores Reformatis concedunt, fidem vivam a charitate & bonis operibus separatam nunquam existere; nec ullam fidem actu servare & justificare, quae cum charitate & bonis operibus juncta non sit. Quod vero dicunt fidem quae jam per dilectionem operatur, & hominem in statu gratiae & salutis constituit, a dilectione separari posse, & in eo remanere in quo non amplius est ea charitas, & illud studium bonorum operum quae ad salutem necessaria sunt: quo casu fides ab actu justificandi cessat, nec pro illo tempore hominem Deo gratum reddit, & acceptum ad vitam aeternam, a Reformatis non negatur.

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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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