Amyraut’s third Reformed view: universal inward grace too — elect still have a peculiar efficacy
Amyraut reports a third Reformed opinion (unnamed).
Not only universal external/objective grace unto salvation.
Also a universal inward/subjective grace — without it none can believe or convert.
Elect still have a peculiar efficacy; absolute reprobation they would drive from religion.
Taught in private papers, not print — yet widely circulated.
Latin
XXV. Verum hic omittendum non est clarissimum Amyraldum in sua Dissertatione de Gratia Particulari referre tertiam quandam sententiam, quam nonnullis ex Reformatis tribuit, licet nomina eorum non edat. Illi igitur, eo referente, non solum admittunt quandam Gratiam Universalem externam atque objectivam, quae sufficiat ad salutem; sed praeterea gratiam aliquam subjectivam & internam, quae sit quoque Universalis, & cujus omnes homines participes a Deo fiant, ut ejus beneficio credere possint & converti, quod absque ea fieri non posset. Quamvis praeter istam gratiam subjectivam & universalem, non negent esse aliam electis peculiarem. Addunt, inquit, utramque gratiam (tam internam scilicet, quam subjectivam vocat, quam externam, quam nominat objectivam,) aliquomodo universalem: Ut tametsi non negent in electo peculiarem quandam efficaciam sese exerere, fateantur tamen, quemadmodum Deus misericordiam suam omnibus hominibus revelat, qua ad fidem & paenitentiam invitantur, sic etiam omnium mentes intrinsecus eatenus affici, quoad objectivam gratiam, si velint, amplecti & retinere queant. Atque hos dicit doctrinam suam typis non vulgavisse, sed privatis tantum animadversionibus, quae tamen longe lateque dissipatae per manus hominum volitaverunt, gratiam subjectivam solis electis particularem carpsisse, & dogma de decreto Reprobationis absoluto, tanquam a vero abhorrens, censuisse e finibus religionis exterminandum.
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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