Bellarmine: conversion-grace not always on hand — yet never denied for new sins
Other Romans distinguish:
Everyone gets, at some life-moment, grace enough to convert and share salvation.
But that converting grace is not always on hand — many justly lose it for sins.
Yet God never denies help to refuse new sins / resist temptation — at least mediate via prayer (Bellarmine).
Latin
XIV. At vero alii quadam hic utuntur distinctione. Sunt enim qui sentiunt neminem quidem esse cui non in aliquo saltem vitae momento, Deus largiatur gratiam qua possit sese ad Deum convertere, & salutis fieri particeps: sed negant istam gratiam semper omnibus praesto esse: multos enim illa juste propter peccata a Deo destitui. Verum contendunt Deum nunquam ulli homini denegare gratiam qua possit a novis peccatis abstinere, & tentationi ingruenti resistere, scilicet, vel immediate, vel ut dictum est, saltem mediate, per auxilium, quod quidem non habet, sed quod precibus impetrare potest. Qua in sententia est Cardinalis Bellarminus, ut videre est primis capitibus libri secundi de Gratia & libero arbitrio.
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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