Theological Theses · §964 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Brentius takes justification to include renovation; Protestants spare him

Brentius folded renovation into justification; Melanchthon pushed back on the mechanism.

Gerhard: wider Latin sense of the term is not itself the Pontifical error—Protestants spare Brentius.

Latin

XXXII. Imo inter Theologos Confessionis Augustanae celeberrimus Joh. Brentius ita accipit vocem justificationis, sub qua hominis renovationem comprehendi existimavit, eamque suam sententiam Epistola ad Melancthonem hac de re scripta testatus est, ut patet ex Melancthonis ad ipsum responsione, quae legitur in Consiliis ejusdem Melancthonis, pag. 245. Imaginaris, inquit ad Brentium, fide justificari homines, quia fide accipiamus Spiritum Sanctum, ut postea justi esse possimus; videlicet, impletione legis, quam efficit in nobis Spiritus Sanctus. Neque tamen propterea quisquam Protestantium gravioris censurae notandum putavit Brentium. Quem, inquit Johannes Gerardus, ut propterea erroris Pontificii de justificatione reum suspicari velimus, quod termino justificationis, in latiori significatione, Latinae vocis compositionem secutus utatur. Loc. Theol. tom. 3. cap. de Justit. per fidem, num. 245. ubi prolixum citat Brentii hac de re locum, ex ejus Apologia Confessionis Wirtembergensis, de Justificatione.

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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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