Theological Theses · §2428 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Remonstrant assisting grace: concurrence 'more than moral'

Thesis XXXIX. Assisting grace, for them, is the grace that helps the will and concurs with it effectively in producing the act, and does so not only morally but also physically, or rather more than morally.

For the word 'physically' seems to them most unsuitable in this matter, because the acts in question are supernatural; yet no other proper word occurs by which they could state the point positively. They observe that this grace is also called cooperating, because it works together with the will, and subsequent in relation to prevenient and rousing grace.

Latin

XXXIX. Adjuvans vero gratia ipsis est quae voluntatem juvat, & effective cum ea concurrit ad producendum actum; idque non moraliter tantum, sed & Physice, sive potius plusquam moraliter: quia nimirum vox Physice in hoc negotio ipsis valde incommoda videtur, propter actuum de quibus quaestio est supernaturalitatem: nec tamen occurrit alia propria vox per quam positive hoc enuncient. Atque hanc gratiam observant dici quoque cooperantem, quia cum voluntate operatur; & subsequentem respectu praevenientis & excitantis gratiae.

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