Theological Theses · §2653 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

The Remonstrants and the Molinists agree

Thesis LXXI. Anyone who compares what we reported about Molina in earlier theses with the Remonstrant doctrine set out in these will see clearly that on the efficacy and sufficiency of grace the Remonstrants hold in fact just what many teachers of the Roman school who follow Molina today hold.

Both agree that of two people given equal preventing grace, one can be converted and the other not, because one freely put an obstacle in grace's way and the other did not. Both agree, too, that God gives even those who are not converted helps of grace so fully sufficient for their conversion that nothing more is needed beforehand on God's side for their conversion actually to follow.

Latin

LXXI. Si quis etiam comparet quae Thesibus superioribus de Molina retulimus, cum Remonstrantium doctrina hisce Thesibus exposita, manifesto apparebit, Remonstrantes de gratiae efficacia & sufficientia, reipsa non aliud sentire quam plurimos Scholae Romanae doctores qui Molinam hodie sequuntur. Nempe utrique consentiunt ex duobus hominibus aequali gratia praeventis unum posse converti, alterum non converti, quia unus gratiae obicem libere posuerit, alter non posuerit. Et illis ipsis qui non convertuntur Deum communicare auxilia gratiae ad ipsorum conversionem tam abunde sufficientia, ut ex parte Dei nihil amplius praerequiratur, ad hoc ut reapse sequatur eorum conversio.

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