Theological Theses · §2630 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

The British theologians: preliminary effects can be stifled

Thesis XLVIII. 'These preliminary effects, produced in people's minds by the power of the word and Spirit, can be smothered and entirely put out through the fault of a rebellious will, and in many they usually are.

So some people, in whose minds the power of the word and Spirit has stamped a measure of knowledge of divine truth, some grief for their sins, and some longing and concern for deliverance, are turned completely the other way: they reject the truth and hate it, hand themselves over to their desires, grow hardened in their sins, and rot in them with no longing or concern for deliverance.'

Latin

XLVIII. Hi praecedanei effectus, virtute verbi spiritusque in hominum mentibus producti, rebellis voluntatis vitio, suffocari ac penitus extingui possunt, & in multis solent; adeo ut nonnulli in quorum mentibus virtute verbi spiritusque impressa fuit aliqualis notitia veritatis divinae, aliqualis dolor de peccatis suis, aliquod desiderium & aliqua cura liberationis, mutentur plane in contrarium, veritatem rejiciant & odio habeant, concupiscentiis suis se tradant, in peccatis occalleant, & absque desiderio vel cura liberationis in iisdem computrescant.

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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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