Theological Theses · §2416 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Polanus: natural and supernatural grace, before and after the fall

Thesis XXVII. Earlier he had distinguished grace into natural and supernatural. By natural grace he means nature itself and all the gifts both of unfallen nature and of what remained in corrupted nature. By supernatural grace he means any gifts above nature that God has bestowed on human beings.

So he divides supernatural grace again into supernatural grace before man's fall, meaning the gifts above nature bestowed on man while still whole, and supernatural grace after man's fall, a name that covers all the gifts above nature bestowed on man as a sinner.

Latin

XXVII. Nam antea distinxit gratiam in naturalem, & supernaturalem. Et per gratiam naturalem intelligit ipsam naturam, & dona omnia tum naturae integrae, tum quae in natura corrupta remanserunt. Per gratiam vero supernaturalem dona quaecunque supra naturam hominibus a Deo collata. Ideoque rursus gratiam supernaturalem distinguit in gratiam supernaturalem ante lapsum hominis, per quam designat dona supra naturam homini integro collata: & in gratiam supernaturalem post lapsum hominis, quo nomine complectitur omnia dona supra naturam homini peccatori collata.

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