Theological Theses · §997 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Simplest: faith justifies because it is imputed to the believer for righteousness

Simplest: faith justifies because it is imputed to the believer for righteousness (Rom 4).

God counts the living believer just for Christ's death and obedience.

Latin

XXII. Simplicissimum nobis videtur si dicamus, fidem justificare, quia credenti, sua fides imputatur ad justitiam. Sic enim Apostolus ipse mentem suam explicat, de justificatione per fidem ex professo agens, Rom. 4. Credenti, inquit, in eum qui justificat impium, reputatur fides ejus ad justitiam. Et in hunc finem citat illud Mosis, Credidit Abraham Deo, & reputatum est ei ad justitiam. Fides autem ad justitiam imputari dicitur, quia Deus illum qui viva fide in Christum credit pro justo habet & reputat, eum a poena peccati liberans, & ad vitam aeternam acceptans, propter Christi mortem & obedientiam.

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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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