Theological Theses · §2324 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Adam's grace and Christ's grace

Thesis V. Some doctors of the Roman School take care to divide this grace that is set against nature into two: the grace given to man before the fall, and the grace given to fallen man through Christ's merit.

They call the first the grace of Adam and the second the grace of Christ; the first the grace of health and the second healing grace. The first was given to a man who had not earned it, the second to one who was actually unworthy of it.

Latin

V. Caeterum gratia illa naturae opposita a nonnullis Scholae Romanae Doctoribus sedulo distinguitur in eam quae homini ante lapsum collata est, & eam quae homini lapso per meritum Christi confertur. Ac priorem illam gratiam vocant, gratiam Adami: Posteriorem vero gratiam Christi. Prior ab illis dicitur gratia sanitatis: haec vero posterior gratia Medicinalis. Prior collata est homini non merenti: posterior etiam indigno.

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