Theological Theses · §2318 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Bellarmine's chief controversy is empty

Thesis LVIII. So the controversy Bellarmine calls the chief one, and imagines to lie between all the Protestants on one side and all the doctors of the Roman School on the other, is empty and amounts to nothing.

It is whether a man, given the help needed for acting, whatever that help may be, is truly and properly free in moral matters; or whether, given the help of grace, he truly has free choice, so that he can break or keep the precepts of the law. The Protestants deny neither of these; they gladly affirm both with the theologians of the Roman School.

Latin

LVIII. Adeoque vana est & nulla controversia quam Bellarminus potissimam vocat & esse fingit inter Protestantes omnes ex una parte, & omnes Scholae Romanae Doctores ex altera, nimirum An posito auxilio ad agendum necessario, quodcunque tandem illud sit, homo sit vere proprieque liber in moralibus; sive An posito auxilio gratiae, homo sit vere liberi arbitrii, ita ut praecepta legis violare, vel servare possit. Nec enim quicquam horum Protestantes inficiantur, sed utrumque libenter cum Scholae Romanae Theologis affirmant.

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