Theological Theses · §2113 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Moses Amyraut: all human acts, good, evil or indifferent, designated by decrees executed unfailingly, without violating freedom

Moses Amyraut, a man of renowned and most celebrated memory, also seems to follow a way of his own here. He holds that whatever men do, whether good, evil, or of the kind counted indifferent, is designated and predefined by God's eternal decrees.

Those decrees, he holds, are carried out with complete certainty and without fail, yet in such a way that human freedom is not violated and God is not made the author of sin.

Latin

XVII. Hic quoque viam singularem sequi videtur inclytae & celeberrimae memoriae vir Moses Amyraldus. Ille ergo quaecunque ab hominibus fiunt sive bona, sive mala, sive de eorum genere quae habentur indifferentia, aeternis Dei decretis designata, & praedefinita esse existimat, eaque decreta certissime & indeclinabiliter executioni mandari: sic tamen ut nec in eo violetur hominis libertas, nec Deus autor peccati statuatur.

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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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