Theological Theses · §930 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Paraeus and Baron: habitual faith in mortal fallers does not justify

Losing true faith in known sin means separation from love — faith ceases saving/justifying.

Paraeus and Baron: habitual-only faith in mortal fallers is interrupted and does not justify for that time.

Latin

XXXIX. Nec enim possunt Renati, quum in peccatis contra conscientiam perseverant, amittere veram fidem, quin fides eorum separetur a Dei & proximi dilectione, & sic desinat esse vera, id est, salvifica atque justificans, quia cessat ab actu salvandi & justificandi, neque talis est, ut Deo hominem gratum & acceptum reddat. Quod etiam conforme est sententiae Davidis Paraei; Fides, inquit, in lapsis habitualiter tantum manens, proprie justificans dici, aut eos justificare non potest. In lib. 1. Bellarm. de Amissione Gratiae, cap. 7. sub finem. Quod probans Rob. Baronius, dicit Fidem, quoad actum illum vivum, quo justificat, in renatis mortaliter peccantibus interrumpi, & deliquium pati; ita ut durante eo statu, eos justificare, aut fides justificans dici non possit. Disput. de Peccato mortali & veniali, sect. 1. num. 5.

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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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ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves).

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