Most Reformed: no sufficient grace that is not also efficacious — elect only

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Most Reformed deny any ‘sufficient’ grace that fails to convert in fact.

Sufficient = efficacious — no real distinction.

God’s grace efficacious in the elect alone.

So sufficient grace for conversion or avoiding sins is for the elect only — not for all.

Latin

XVII. Quod spectat Scholae Reformatae Doctores, eorum longe plurimi non agnoscunt ullam gratiam quae sufficiat ad hominem convertendum, & perducendum ad salutem, quae etiam reapse hominem non convertat, & ad salutem perducat. Adeoque, juxta eorum sententiam, nulla est gratia sufficiens, quae etiam efficax non sit: nec debet haec ab illa distingui. Ac proinde cum doceant gratiam Dei in solis electis esse efficacem, tantum abest ut agnoscant omnibus hominibus dari gratiam sufficientem sive ad conversionem, sive ad peccata vitanda, ut hanc solis electis obtingere contendant.

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

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Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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