Second question safer — if saving grace is wholly free and one act in God
Glory-vs-grace order question is different — safer if grace stays free.
Premise: nothing in man provokes the grace-helps.
And: one simple eternal will-act — not stacked real decrees in God.
Latin
XXXII. Secus vero videtur de altera illa quaestione, An scilicet, Electio ad gloriam aeternam, prout ab Electione ad gratiam distinguitur, sit ex praevisa fide & operibus? hoc est, An natura, vel ratione prius Deus praevideat hominem in Christum crediturum, illumque fide viva & per dilectionem efficaci amplexurum, quam absolute decernat illi conferre vitam & gloriam aeternam? Modo constet homines ad gratiam salutarem omnino gratis eligi, nec quicquam in iis esse quo Deus provocetur, ad gratiae istius auxilia ipsis, potius quam aliis destinanda atque largienda. Ac praeterea Deum unico & simplici voluntatis suae actu, ab aeterno simul & semel decrevisse, quaecunque unquam decrevit, & in tempore exequitur. Nec revera in Deo esse plura decreta, sibi succedentia, aut ab invicem realiter distincta, tanquam distinctos, & seorsim ac separatim elicitos, divinae mentis & voluntatis actus.
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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