Theological Theses · §1959 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Without foreknowledge of free acts God would not be omniscient

Certainly, if God does not know every future thing from eternity, but is ignorant of what creatures will freely do, omniscience can no longer be ascribed to him.

Nor can he truly be said to know all things, since some things would be hidden from his knowledge.

Latin

VIII. Et certe si Deus ab aeterno futura quaelibet non praescit, sed ignorat ea quae sunt a creaturis libere agenda, omniscientia Deo amplius tribuenda non est; neque vere dici potest omnia scire, siquidem nonnulla sunt quae latent ejus scientiam.

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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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