Theological Theses · §2120 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Many Reformed add physical and real premotion and predetermination of the faculties

To deal with this difficulty, however, a good number of theologians of the Reformed school take a somewhat different path. They teach not only that whatever men do is predefined by God's eternal decrees, but also that those decrees take effect by more than that most learned man holds.

They do not work only through some change in the free faculties, consisting in their restoration or the addition of new strength, together with the presenting of various objects from within and from without. They also work through a physical and real efficacy by which the faculties themselves are premoved and predetermined to these and those free acts.

Latin

XXIV. Caeterum ad difficultatem istam expediendam viam paulo diversam insistunt Scholae Reformatae Theologi complures. Non solum enim docent quaecunque ab hominibus fiunt aeternis Dei decretis esse praedefinita, sed decreta illa putant effectum suum sortiri, non solum, ut censet vir ille Doctissimus, per aliquam facultatum liberarum immutationem, quae in earum restitutione, aut novarum virium adjectione consistat, ac praeterea per variorum objectorum tum intus tum extra propositionem, verum etiam per physicam & realem efficaciam, qua facultates ipsae ad hos & illos actus liberos praemoveantur, & praedeterminentur.

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