Common Roman view: God gives all sufficient grace — Scripture and inexcusability
Common Roman (esp. recent) view: God gives all sufficient grace for conversion and avoiding sins.
Driven by God-wills-all-saved / none-perish / all-to-repentance texts.
Else He would will salvation yet deny needed grace — incoherent.
Without universal sufficient help, the unevangelized look excusable; Scripture still calls persevering sinners inexcusable.
Latin
II. Sed communis Doctorum Ecclesiae Romanae sententia est in contrarium: saltem quantum attinet Doctores hodiernos atque recentiores. Existimant enim omnibus a Deo gratiam sufficientem dari ad conversionem, & peccata vitanda. Ut autem ita sentiant inducuntur Scripturae locis, in quibus dicitur Deus velle ut omnes homines serventur, & ad agnitionem veritatis veniant; item nolle quemquam perire, sed omnes ad resipiscentiam venire; aliisque similibus. Nec enim ista constare videntur, ut Deus velit hominum salutem & conversionem, & tamen iis gratiam ad fidem & salutem necessariam denegat. Ac praeterea, nisi omnibus hominibus sufficiens gratia detur, putant multos excusari posse, si non convertantur, & a peccatis abstineant, nempe omnes illos quibus talis gratia non obtigit. Nec enim existimant quenquam juste condemnari posse, quod non fecerit ea ad quae non habuit auxilia necessaria & sufficientia: cum tamen Scriptura doceat omnes illos esse inexcusabiles, qui in peccatis perseverant, & ad Deum non convertuntur.
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)
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