The question — is there a motive in us for election?
Live question: effects + eternal relation to them.
Is there a non-effect cause/motive in us?
Why this person elect rather than another?
Latin
III. Verum hic quaestio est de praedestinatione secundo & tertio modo considerata, nempe, secundum effectus quos Deus, ut praedestinans & eligens homines, in hominibus, aut circa homines operatur. Et etiam secundum respectum extrinsecum, quem Dei praedestinantis voluntas habet ad effectus illos, ad quos ab aeterno libere terminatur. Videlicet, quaeritur, An sit aliqua causa omnium effectuum praedestinationis in nobis, quae effectibus illis non sit annumeranda. Seu quod eodem redit, An Deus hos & illos eligens atque praedestinans consideraverit & praeviderit in ipsis aliquid quod sit ratio vel motivum praedestinationis & electionis ipsorum, ad quod nimirum possint referri, tanquam ad causam quoquo modo moventem atque meritoriam, quaecunque bona ipsis, vi suae praedestinationis & electionis obtingunt: & ita an sit in homine quaedam vel causa, vel ratio cur sit a Deo praedestinatus, & cur iste potius electus sit quam alter?
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu, Sedan Theses, newly rendered from Latin: from theology proper through the Roman theses I–77 and the Reformed theses of Part Two. The theses only — not the collected works.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.