Theological Theses · §2475 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Efficacious of itself: infallibly, insuperably, indeclinably

Thesis XXXVII. That is why they call this grace efficacious of itself, that is, grace that by its own force moves and determines free choice, and does so, in their own words, 'infallibly, insuperably, indeclinably'. For the human will cannot cheat it of its effect or prevent it from accomplishing what God properly gives it for, because this divine grace overcomes all human resistance, and its power consists in making a person willing who was unwilling.

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XXXVII. Inde est quod gratiam illam dicunt esse efficacem per se, id est, talem quae vi sua movet & determinat liberum arbitrium: idque, ut ipsi loquuntur, infallibiliter, insuperabiliter, indeclinabiliter: quoniam fieri non potest ut voluntas humana illam effectu suo frustretur, obstetque ne praestet illud ad quod proprie a Deo donatur; propterea quod haec divina gratia omnem hominis resistentiam vincit, & vis ejus in eo consistit, ut homo fiat ex nolente volens.

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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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