Theological Theses · §2251 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

So every good work belongs to piety and in its way profits salvation

Further, since in Jansenius's mind there is no good work that does not flow from a kind of heavenly charity and is not referred to God, to be possessed in eternal life, it also follows that there is no good work that does not belong to the worship of God and to piety and in its own way profit the soul's salvation.

So the Schoolmen divide good works in vain into those that are only morally good, cannot be counted among acts of piety and religion, and so profit the doer nothing toward eternal life, and those in which piety and religion consist and which in this way contribute something to the soul's salvation and eternal life.

Latin

XLIV. Porro cum, ex Jansenii mente, nullum sit bonum opus quod non ex coelesti quadam charitate profluat, atque ad Deum in aeterna vita possidendum non referatur, inde quoque consequens est, nullum esse bonum opus, quod non ad Dei cultum & pietatem pertineat, & suo modo prosit ad animae salutem. Adeoque frustra Scholasticos distinguere bona opera in ea quae solum moraliter bona sunt, nec possunt inter actus pietatis & religionis censeri; ac proinde facienti nihil prosunt ad vitam aeternam: & ea in quibus pietas & religio consistit, & quae sic ad salutem animae & vitam aeternam aliquid conferunt.

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