Theological Theses · §2619 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Testard: sufficient grace is objective, not subjective

Thesis XXXVII. In his view, then, this sufficient grace is not a subjective grace that inwardly disposes a person to faith and repentance. It is only an objective grace, which consists in salvation being made possible for a person.

This happens in two ways: through Christ's satisfaction, which took away the barrier that divine justice set against people obtaining forgiveness of sins, and through God's outward call and invitation to faith and repentance, given either by the preached word or by the works of nature and providence.

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XXXVII. Itaque, ex ejus mente, gratia ista sufficiens non est gratia aliqua subjectiva, quae hominem intus disponat ad fidem & resipiscentiam: sed tantum gratia quaedam objectiva, quae in eo consistit quod salus homini possibilis redditur, tum per Christi satisfactionem, quae sustulit obstaculum illud quod justitia divina opponebat, ne homines peccatorum veniam impetrarent: tum per externam Dei vocationem, & invitationem ad fidem & resipiscentiam, sive per verbum praedicationis, sive per opera naturae & providentiae.

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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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