Theological Theses · §2626 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Hence no sufficient grace for those who do not believe

Thesis XLIV. Since that working of God does not show itself in those who do not actually believe and repent, the theologians who subscribe to that Synod deny that such people are given sufficient grace, however much the outward preaching of the word invites them to repentance and faith, and even though some inward motions of the Holy Spirit stir them.

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XLIV. Proinde cum illa Dei operatio in iis sese non exerat qui reipsa non credunt & poenitentiam agunt, idcirco qui isti Synodo subscribunt Theologi, negant illis gratiam sufficientem dari, quantumcunque externa verbi praedicatione ad poenitentiam & fidem invitentur, & quibusdam etiam internis Spiritus Sancti motibus percellantur.

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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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