Theological Theses · §2594 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Those who hear and do not choke the word are led to faith

Thesis XII. According to him, then, all who hear the word, do not reject God's counsel against themselves, and do not smother God's word with the worries, riches or pleasures of this life experience God's help and working, and are brought to faith and life by his free goodwill.

Those who act otherwise must lay it to their own carelessness and defiance that God does not give them faith.

Latin

XII. Itaque juxta ipsum, quicunque verbum audiunt, neque aspernantur consilium Dei in semetipsos, ac verbum Dei non suffocant curis aut divitiis, aut voluptatibus hujus vitae, ii, inquam, Dei opem & operam sentiunt, ejusque gratuita benevolentia ad fidem & vitam deducuntur. Qui vero contra faciunt, suae negligentiae & contumaciae imputare debent, quod a Deo fide non donentur.

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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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