Universal sufficient means mediate — more grace if well used (Cornelius)
Their universal sufficient grace is at least mediate, not always immediate.
Use the first measure well → God ready to give more.
Until saving knowledge of the Son — by ordinary or even extraordinary means.
Cornelius: pious with limited light → angel → Peter → Gospel.
Latin
VI. Itaque quum gratiam quandam universalem & sufficientem urgent, intelligunt eam quae saltem mediate sufficiat, ut ejus beneficio homines ad salutem aeternam perducantur: quatenus, scilicet, si bene utantur ea gratiae mensura quae primo ipsis indulgetur, paratus sit Deus semper ampliorem largiri, donec tandem eos ad salutiferam filii sui notitiam adducat, per media seu ordinaria, seu etiam extraordinaria: sicut Cornelio contigit, qui Deum pie colens pro modulo cognitionis ipsi a Deo indulto per angelum monitus fuit ut Petrum arcesseret, a quo in via salutis amplius instrueretur, & Evangelii doctrinam perciperet.
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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