Some Reformed: universal external mercy-offer counts as sufficient
Some Reformed today preach a universal grace common to all — enough of itself for salvation.
Asked if all get sufficient grace: they say yes.
Not as inward Spirit-work on mind/will/affections.
But as outward mercy-preaching and invitation to faith and repentance — by word or providence’s effects.
Latin
XVIII. Veruntamen nonnulli hodie reperiuntur Theologi inter Reformatos qui tuentur & praedicant gratiam quandam universalem, quam communem esse volunt omnibus hominibus, & quam etiam dicunt ex se & per se ad salutem sufficere. Adeoque rogati an omnibus hominibus detur gratia sufficiens? Respondent ita esse. Sed gratiam illam constituunt, non in interna quadam spiritus operatione, quae mentem, voluntatem, & affectus hominis moveat & excitet, ut feratur in Deum, & peccatum fugiat: sed tantum in externa divinae misericordiae praedicatione & declaratione, & invitatione ad fidem & resipiscentiam, sub spe remissionis peccatorum obtinendae, & participandae salutis; sive ista declaratio atque invitatio fiant per externum verbi praeconium; sive per effecta varia divinae providentiae, quae sese circa homines peccato corruptos exserunt.
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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