Lutherans reject sufficient/efficacious split — call resists, not weak offer
Lutherans scrap sufficient-vs-efficacious as useless.
Yet near the Remonstrants here: all are universally called.
The call is efficacious of itself and by God’s intent.
It fails in many because they resist, refuse its efficacy, or cast grace off — not because the offer was weak (Gerhard).
Latin
XXVII. Illi vero Theologi Confessionis Augustanae qui Lutherani appellantur distinctionem quidem gratiae in sufficientem atque efficacem respuunt, ut inutilem atque superfluam; sed tamen in hac quaestione idem, aut prope idem cum Remonstrantibus sentire videntur. Censent enim omnes universaliter ad salutem a Deo vocari atque excitari, & quidem vocatione, quae ex se, & ex Dei intentione efficax est: quod vero effectum in multis non sortitur, inde esse quod multi Deum vocantem respuunt, & vocationi divinae resistunt, nec admittunt efficaciam gratiae ipsis oblatae, aut serius admissa non bene utuntur, sed sponte Divinam gratiam abjiciunt. Cum alii contra Deo vocanti aurem praebeant, nec spiritus in ipsis operationi impedimentum ponant. Quae pluribus deducta videre licet apud Joannem Gerhardum, Tom. 2. tractatu de Elect. & Reprob. cap. 7.
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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