Theological Theses · §943 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Beza: justification broadly includes imputation and sanctifying efficacy

Beza, Zanchi, Bullinger, Leyden: justification can include inward righteousness given.

Beza: broad justification = imputation plus Spirit's sanctifying efficacy.

Latin

XI. Porro inter Doctores illos qui existimant in locis allegatis justificationem non includere solam peccati remissionem, sed etiam internae cujusdam justitiae donationem, numerari possunt Beza, Zanchius, Bullingerus, & Professores Leydenses, in sua purioris Theologiae Synopsi. Sic enim loquitur Beza in notis suis majoribus ad locum ex Epistola ad Titum modo citatum. Justificationis nomen large accipio, ita ut complectatur quicquid a Christo consequimur, tum per imputationem, tum per Spiritus in nobis sanctificandis efficaciam, ut simus perfecti & integri in eo. Sic quoque accipitur justificandi verbum, Rom. 8. 30.

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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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