Theological Theses · §2195 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

The remaining power is free from coercion and physical necessity; many call it a physical power to do good

They also grant that the power left in man after sin is free with respect to those works, not only from compulsion but from all physical necessity and brute determination.

That is why many of them do not hesitate to say that man before grace has a physical power to do saving good and can do good if he wills, though he is morally unable to do it because his will is hardened in evil by perverse habits.

Latin

XLVIII. Praeterea eosdem fateri potentiam istam in homine post peccatum residuam, respectu eorundem operum liberam esse, non tantum a coactione, sed etiam ab omni Physica necessitate, & determinatione bruta. Unde est quod eorum multi dicere non verentur, hominem ante gratiam potentiam Physicam habere salutare bonum operandi, illumque posse bene operari si velit, licet ad hoc sit moraliter impotens, propter voluntatem ejus pravis habitibus in malo obfirmatam.

Report a mistake in this passage