Theological Theses · §1912 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Alvarez teaches this exactly (De auxiliis II.7): God physically predetermines the will to all its good acts

Diego Alvarez sets out this teaching accurately and clearly in the Summa of his work De auxiliis divinae gratiae, book 2. The heading of chapter 7 there reads: 'That God, by a prior motion inhering in the created will, moves, applies, or predetermines it in the manner of a physical cause to all its good acts in particular, without prejudice to its freedom.'

In that chapter he writes: 'By this motion and application God really changes the will from one state to another and makes it willing instead of unwilling.' And again: 'By this actual, efficacious motion, in the manner of a physical cause, that is, truly as an efficient cause, God predetermines man's will to free good acts, so that the will, moved by God through help of this kind, determines itself freely and infallibly to produce its second act freely.'

Latin

XX. Hanc doctrinam accurate & distincte tradit Didacus Alvares in Summa Operis de Auxiliis divinae gratiae libro secundo. Etenim in eo libro capitis septimi Lemma est, Quod Deus praevia motione Voluntati creatae inhaerente eam ad modum causae Physicae moveat, applicet, seu praedeterminet ad omnes actus suos bonos in particulari, salva ipsius libertate. Et in eo capite haec sunt illius verba, Per hanc motionem & applicationem Deus transmutat realiter Voluntatem de uno in aliud, & facit illam de Nolente Volentem. Item, Deus hac actuali motione efficaci ad modum causae Physicae, id est, vere efficienter, praedeterminat hominis Voluntatem ad liberos actus bonos, ut Voluntas a Deo mota per hujusmodi auxilium se libere & infallibiliter determinet ad actum secundum libere producendum.

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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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