Theological Theses · §2637 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Ames: a real working of God joined to moral suasion

Thesis LV. Amesius sets out and explains this view in Bellarminus enervatus, book 3, on grace, chapter 3. 'We say,' he writes, 'that along with moral persuasion there is also a real causal working of God.

By it a new source of spiritual life is planted in the heart of the person who is effectively called, and at the same time he is roused to perform the acts of this life.'

Latin

LV. Hanc sententiam tradit & explicat Amesius in Bellarmino enervato libro tertio de Gratia capite tertio. Nos dicimus, inquit, una cum suasione morali conjungi etiam realem efficientiam Dei, qua novum principium spiritualis vitae cordi hominis efficaciter vocati ingeneratur, & homo simul excitatur ad hujus vitae actus eliciendos.

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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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