Theological Theses · §2160 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Molina's double anathema: on those who make the consent natural, and on those who deny it free

So he at once pronounces anathema on those who affirm that the consent we give to God rousing us through prevenient grace is natural, or can be produced without the help and cooperation of that prevenient grace.

'In our judgement,' he says, 'anyone who affirms that the consent of our choice to God rousing and calling us through the help of prevenient grace is a natural act, or can be produced without the help and cooperation of that prevenient grace, must be held anathema. But anyone is also anathema who says that this consent is not within the free power of our choice, in the way explained, and that the free cooperation of our choice is not necessary for the supernatural acts by which we are disposed to grace and set apart from those who are not justified.'

Latin

XIII. Ideoque statim anathema dicit illis qui affirmaverint consensum quem praebemus Deo excitanti per gratiam praevenientem, naturalem esse, aut posse elici sine ejusdem praevenientis gratiae auxilio & cooperatione. Nostra itaque sententia, inquit, anathema censeri debet, qui affirmaverit consensum arbitrii nostri Deo excitanti & vocanti per auxilium gratiae praevenientis, esse actum naturalem, aut posse elici sine auxilio & cooperatione ejusdem praevenientis gratiae: sed iterum esse etiam anathema, qui dixerit eundem consensum non esse in libera arbitrii nostri, ad modum explicatum, potestate, cooperationemque liberam arbitrii nostri non esse necessariam ad supernaturales actus quibus ad gratiam disponimur, & quibus ab iis discernimur qui non justificantur.

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