Scholastic end/means split vs Reformed medium voice — election and reprobation
Scholastics: electio = end (glory); praedestinatio = means (grace alone).
Reformed: praedestinatio covers end and means; election seldom = glory alone.
Many Reformed: election → gift of faith (grace over glory) — not Roman custom.
Rome (except Jansenists): praedestinatio almost only in bonam partem.
Most Reformed: praedestinatio = medium voice → Election and Reprobation.
Latin
XXX. Sic plerisque Scholasticorum solenne distinguere est, ut vidimus, per praedestinationem intelligere solius gratiae praeparationem, illamque a decreto electionis quo gloria certis hominibus ab aeterno destinata est, praeteritis caeteris: ita ut electio sit decretum de fine, praedestinatio vero decretum de mediis. Reformati autem nunquam vocem praedestinationis eo modo restringunt, sed perpetuo sub illa comprehendunt, tam decretum de danda gloria tanquam fine, quam decretum de conferendis auxiliis & donis gratiae, ut mediis ad finem illum consequendum necessariis atque efficacibus. Et vix etiam videas apud illos vocem electionis restringi ad decretum de communicanda gloria. Imo eorum non pauci electionem videntur restringere ad decretum de fide donanda, existimantque illam potius respicere gratiam quam gloriam, quae acceptio in Schola Romana usitata non est. In qua etiam rarissime, si Jansenium & ejus discipulos excipias, vox praedestinationis aliter sumitur quam in bonam partem, vixque unquam accommodatur ad decretum de quorundam hominum interitu. Cum contra apud plerosque Doctores Reformatos praedestinatio sit vox media, qua ipsis in genere designatur Dei decretum, quo homines vel ad vitam, vel ad mortem ordinantur: cujusque proinde duas species constituunt, Electionem, scilicet, & Reprobationem.
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.