Common Roman view — absolute gratuitous decree; no meritorious cause
Today’s common Roman Doctors reject all four prior opinions.
Decree to all effects: absolute, merely gratuitous.
No propter-quam / sine-qua-non in the elect — Gregory lists Thomas to Lombard.
Latin
IX. Verum omnes istae sententiae a Doctoribus Ecclesiae Romanae communiter hodie rejiciuntur & damnantur. Censent enim, saltem eorum longe plurimi, decretum divinae praedestinationis ad omnes suos effectus relatum absolutum esse & mere gratuitum, nec pendere ab ulla conditione vel causa, quam Deus praedestinans in homine praeviderit & consideraverit. Hanc enim sententiam ut Theologorum communem proponit & defendit jam saepe memoratus Gregorius de Valentia. Nullam, scilicet, esse rationem seu causam ullo modo meritoriam, ex parte praedestinati, praedestinationis quoad omnes ipsius effectus. Et quod si praedestinatio referatur ad omnes ipsius effectus, nulla sit ratio, vel causa ullo modo meritoria ipsius in praedestinato, neque propter quam, neque sine qua non, sed in solam gratuitam Dei voluntatem referri debeat. Ut videre est loco supra citato. Ubi eandem quoque sententiam tribuit multis veteribus Scholasticis, ut Thomae Aquinati, Alexandro Alensi, Cardinali Bonaventurae, Joanni Scoto, Aegidio Romano, Gregorio Ariminensi, Richardo Hertio, & ipsi Sententiarum Magistro Petro Lombardo.
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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