Triple respect — act, effects, eternal relation; no cause of the act
Three respects: will’s act; temporal effects; eternal relation.
Of the act itself: no cause in man — unanimous.
Divine will is cause of all; has no cause.
Latin
II. Porro praedestinatio sub hac notione accepta, secundum Scholae Romanae Theologos tripliciter considerari potest. Et prima quidem ratione actus ipsius voluntatis divinae, per quem Deus homines ad salutem destinat. Secundo, ratione effectuum illius actus, qui conferuntur homini in tempore, & qui omnes ad gratiam & gloriam revocantur. Denique secundum terminationem atque relationem, quam divina voluntas ab aeterno habuit ad effectus illos futuros. Priori modo confitentur omnes Scholae Romanae Doctores, absque ulla haesitatione, nullam causam divinae praedestinationis a parte hominis dari, vel cogitari posse, ut nec divinae voluntatis, quae cum ipsa sit causa rerum omnium, nullam causam habere potest.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.
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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