Theological Theses · §2502 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Victorious in one person, overcome in another

Thesis LXIV. Although, on his teaching, that victorious delight in which Christ's healing and efficacious grace consists drives the will to the good infallibly and makes it surely consent to the good that is so sweet, nevertheless a delight that wins in one person, because the delight of the flesh opposing it there is weaker, and so brings the will to consent, will in another person be overcome by a greater and stronger delight of the flesh. There it will not bend the will, which a mightier and stronger earthly delight will lead away captive.

Latin

LXIV. Porro quanquam victrix illa delectatio, in qua Christi gratia medicinalis & efficax consistit, voluntatem ad bonum, secundum illius doctrinam, impellat infallibiliter, & bono, quod ita suave est, certo consentire faciat: nihilominus quae in uno victrix est, quia minor ei se opponit carnis delectatio, quaeque idcirco voluntatem in consensum inducit, in alio tamen majori & fortiori carnis delectatione vincetur, nec per eam flectetur voluntas, quam captivam abducet delectatio terrena potentior atque valentior.

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