Theological Theses · §1685 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Rome too allows this immortality natural in two senses: implanted from origin, and perfecting nature

Nor do the theologians of the Roman school deny, as we showed above, that the immortality the first man had before sin can be called natural in a certain respect and sense. It can be so called insofar as "natural" means what was implanted from the first origin, not something added from outside and laid on top. It can also be so called insofar as "natural" is opposed to what is against nature and means what adorns and perfects that same nature.

Latin

XXVII. Nec etiam negant Scholae Romanae Theologi, ut supra fuit a nobis ostensum, immortalitatem istam, quae primo homini ante peccatum competebat, naturalem certo respectu & sensu dici posse, nempe quatenus naturale significat quod est a prima Origine insitum, non autem adventitium atque superadditum: Item quatenus naturale opponitur ei quod est contra naturam, & significat id quod eandem naturam ornat atque perficit.

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