With those rulings the learned Bannes rejects and condemns the view that regenerating, life-saving grace is prepared and laid open to every human being because of Christ’s merit. He also refutes those who locate the reason why some are regenerated and others are not—or why some convert and others do not—in human willing and refusing. And he teaches that our concurrence, or our non-resistance—our willing—is a necessary effect of efficacious grace once given, and so is not the reason or condition for its being given and received.
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Hisce suis pronunciatis doctissimus Bannesius illorum opinionem rejicit damnatque, qui gratiam regenerantem et salvivificam propter meritum Christi omnibus hominibus paratam et expositam tuentur. Porro et illos refellit, qui rationem cur hi regenerentur, illi non regenerentur, sive cur hi convertantur, illi non convertantur, resolvunt in velle et nolle humanum. Denique et illud docet, nostram concurrentiam sive non-resistentiam, hoc est, velle nostrum, esse necessarium effectum datae gratiae efficacis, ac proinde, non esse rationem aut conditionem dandae et accipiendae.