Theological Theses · §98 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Faith resolves two ways: in the conscience, and before others

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Third: our faith can be resolved in two ways — with respect to the object or the subject; with respect to ourselves or with respect to others.

With respect to ourselves and the subject, faith is resolved when we ask what the inward principle is, and where each conscience rests so that we may not press further. With respect to the object and to others, our faith is resolved when we ask for the last foundation we can show and name to someone else.

That last foundation we can show another must be some external principle of faith — an outward rule of faith — where we stop, with no further rule beyond it.

Latin

XXI. Tertio observandum est, fidei nostrae resolutionem dupliciter fieri posse, respectu objecti, et respectu subjecti, sive respectu nostri, et respectu aliorum. Respectu nostri, et respectu subjecti fides resolvitur, quum quaeritur quid sit internum fidei principium, et illud in quo conscientia cujusque conquiescit, neque licet ultra progredi. Sed respectu objecti, et respectu aliorum fides nostra resolvitur, quum quaeritur ultimum fidei nostrae fundamentum, quod alteri proferre et indicare possumus. Ultimum vero istud fidei nostrae fundamentum quod indicare possumus alteri, necesse est ut sit aliquod externum fidei principium, et externa quaedam fidei regula, in qua sistendum est, et qua non datur alia ulterior.

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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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