Vasquez on infants: sufficient remedies for some, not all
Vasquez: the question is not whether Christ made means sufficient in themselves for every infant.
But whether He left their application in someone’s free power.
Some infants (born, or dying in the womb by parental neglect): sufficient remedies were provided — though often unused.
Others: God never granted that human diligence could apply sufficient remedies (no water; womb-death by nature alone).
Latin
IX. In ea est sententia Vasquez, qui monet hic non quaeri an Christus instituerit media ad salutem parvulis omnibus ex se sufficientia: sed an illa ita providerit & disposuerit, ut in libera facultate alicujus applicationem illorum reliquerit. Et postea, adhibita quadam distinctione, docet quibusdam parvulis, editis nimirum in lucem, & iis qui negligentia parentum in utero materno moriuntur, provisa fuisse remedia sufficientia, quae applicari illis possent, licet adultorum negligentia non fuerint applicata: quibusdam vero parvulis non fuisse a Deo ullo modo concessum, posse humana diligentia applicari sufficientia remedia, sive editis in lucem, quum aqua non conceditur, sive in utero materno vi sola naturae morientibus. Tom. 1. in 1. Thom. disputatione 96.
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)
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- 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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