Theological Theses · §2395 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Zanchi: gifts that belong to eternal life and gifts that do not

Thesis VI. Zanchi's teaching in book 4 of On the Nature of God (chapter 2, question 1) comes to the same thing. The gifts of God that are sometimes called grace either belong to eternal life, like faith, hope and love and the virtues joined to them, or do not belong to eternal life, like the gift of tongues, of miracles and the others Paul lists in 1 Corinthians 12.

Similar statements can be read in Polanus at the place already cited.

Latin

VI. Eodem redit quod docet Zanchius libro quarto de Natura Dei cap. 2. quaest. 1. Scilicet ea Dei dona quae nomine gratiae aliquando significantur, vel ad vitam aeternam pertinere, uti sunt fides, spes & charitas, & quae cum iis conjunctae sunt virtutes: vel non pertinere ad vitam aeternam, uti donum linguarum, miraculorum, & alia de quibus Paulus 1 Cor. 12. Quibus similia legere est apud Polanum loco praeallegato.

Report a mistake in this passage

About this text

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)

No modern English.

Reference

ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves).

Printed text used

Translated from Latin (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
Also checked PDF of the 1675 (Latin)
Also checked pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
Also checked DjVu machine-read text of the 1675 (Latin)

We have not yet re-checked this work against its source. We made this study translation with AI help. No scholar has yet certified it as faithful and complete. Open Latin on any section, or the Latin source link, to see the source text. It is not a critical edition.

Report a mistake