Theological Theses · §2329 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

The recent Thomists: physical predetermination even in Adam

Thesis X. Those called the recent Thomists, on the other hand, think that a grace which predetermines the will and applies it efficaciously to good was not foreign to the state of innocence.

If Adam did any good before he sinned, as he certainly did, he did it, they say, by the power of a grace that physically predetermined his will: a grace that did not merely give his will the ability to do good but efficaciously moved it to good beforehand.

On their principles, without this efficacious premotion from God man's will cannot be carried toward good in any of its states.

Latin

X. Contra vero qui dicuntur Thomistae recentiores, putant gratiam praedeterminantem, & voluntatem ad bonum efficaciter applicantem ab innocentiae statu non fuisse alienam. Et Adam, si quid boni ante peccatum egit, ut egit proculdubio, illud egisse vi cujusdam gratiae Physice voluntatem illius praedeterminantis, eique non tantum boni facultatem largientis, sed illam efficaciter ad bonum praemoventis; sine qua efficaci Dei praemotione, voluntas hominis in nullo ejus statu, juxta ipsorum principia, ad bonum ferri potest.

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