Theological Theses · §2443 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Christ's healing grace is efficacious of itself

Thesis V. On their view, then, all true grace of Christ, properly and specifically so called, the grace suited to heal sick humanity and needed for every devout affection and movement of the will, is efficacious of itself. No hard heart ever rejects it, because it always grants the willing and removes hardness of heart in proportion to the divine gift.

A person can withhold consent from it if he chooses; yet it always ensures that he does not withhold consent, and does not want to.

Latin

V. Itaque, ex eorum mente, omnis vera & proprie ac speciali modo sic dicta Christi gratia, aegro homini sanando comparata, & ad singulos piae voluntatis affectus & motus necessaria, gratia per se efficax est, & talis ut a nullo duro corde unquam respuatur: quippe quae semper velle donat, & cordis duritiem aufert, pro mensura doni divini. Ac quanquam homo si vult, illi dissentire potest, semper tamen efficit ut homo illi non dissentiat, nec dissentire velit.

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