Theological Theses · §653

Not immediate power against every temptation — at least mediate via prayer

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Likewise: not immediate sufficiency against every sin and temptation for all.

Only mediate power to avoid and overcome.

Many with present help still lose unless God adds greater help.

Yet they keep at least prayer-help to ask God for the grace then needed.

Latin

VII. Imo neque volunt omnibus hominibus gratiam dari quae sit immediate sufficiens ad peccata vitanda, & tentationes vincendas, sed eam tantum qua possint, mediate saltem, peccata vitare, & tentationes vincere. Agnoscunt, videlicet, multos cum auxilio praesenti impares esse tentationi vincendae, & ni Deus majus auxilium addat, certo fore ut pravae cupiditati succumbant: sed contendunt illis saltem non deesse auxilium quo Deum orare possint, & gratiam tum illis necessariam ab ipso impetrare.

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

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