Theological Theses · §2588 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Calixtus: God works through the preached word unless men love darkness

Thesis VI. Georg Calixtus, formerly professor of theology at the Academia Julia, teaches the same doctrine and explains it more clearly in his Epitome of Theology, taken down as he dictated it. In the treatise on the ministry of the word, page 241, he teaches that when a minister of the word puts the teaching of the Law and of the Gospel before people, God is at work through this means and instrument of his.

Through it God rouses in human hearts sorrow for sins committed, trust in Christ's merit, hatred of sin, and eagerness for a new life, unless people, through their own stubbornness and obstinacy, love darkness more than light.

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VI. Eandem doctrinam tradit & distinctius explicat Georgius Calixtus, antehac Theologiae in Academia Julia Professor, Epitome Theologiae ex ore dictantis excepta. Ibi enim tractatu de ministerio verbi pagina 241. docet, quando minister verbi legalem & Evangelicam doctrinam hominibus proponit, Deum per hoc suum medium & instrumentum efficacem esse, & in cordibus humanis contritionem de commissis peccatis, fiduciam in meritum Christi, peccatorum odium, novaeque vitae studium excitare, nisi tamen ipsi homines suapte pertinacia & pervicacia tenebras magis diligant quam lucem.

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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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