Theological Theses · §2257 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Despite all this, the whole Roman School grants fallen man free choice in moral matters

Not a few theologians of the Roman School think that no morally good work can be accomplished without the grace of Christ. Most doctors of that School hold that at least the harder precepts of the moral law cannot be kept without the help of that grace, and that not even one of the easier ones can be obeyed without Christ's help if some heavy temptation presses.

Yet in this they all agree: man, even in the state of fallen nature, has freedom in moral matters; he has free choice and ought to be said to have it, not only in civil and natural matters but in moral ones too.

Latin

L. Caeterum quamvis non pauci Scholae Romanae Theologi nullum bonum opus morale sine gratia Christi perfici posse existiment, ac censeant plerique illius Scholae Doctores difficiliora saltem legis moralis praecepta sine gratiae illius auxilio servari non posse: imo ne uni quidem ex facilioribus, nisi auxiliante Christo, obsequium praestari posse, si gravis aliqua tentatio urgeat; in eo tamen omnes conveniunt hominem, etiam in statu naturae lapsae, circa res morales libertatem habere, liberique arbitrii esse, & dici debere, non solum in rebus civilibus atque naturalibus, sed etiam in moralibus.

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