Objection: what then is disputed? Answer: on this precise question, words
'Then what,' you will ask, 'is the dispute between the Protestants and the Roman School, when the latter affirms that man before grace has freedom of choice not only for natural and moral works but also for works of piety and supernatural works, and the former deny it?'
My answer: many doctors of the Roman Church do give free choice too much in various ways, as we showed in earlier disputations. But on this precise question the quarrel seems to be over words.
Latin
LVI. At, inquies, quid ergo illud est de quo contenditur inter Protestantes & Scholam Romanam, dum haec quidem affirmat hominem ante gratiam arbitrii sui libertatem habere, non solum ad opera naturalia & moralia, sed etiam ad opera pietatis & supernaturalia: illi vero istud negant. Respondeo, multos quidem ex Doctoribus Ecclesiae Romanae variis modis nimium tribuere libero arbitrio, ut superioribus disputationibus a nobis ostensum est: sed quod ad hanc praecise quaestionem attinet, videri certamen esse de vocibus.