Yet even civil righteousness is owed to a special help of God
Thesis VI. Although in the Protestants' view the grace of Christ is not needed for civil righteousness and uprightness of this kind, many of them point out that it is to be ascribed to a special help of God.
Men left wholly to themselves, they say, could not attain even this civil righteousness, and those praised among the pagans for virtue did no praiseworthy actions without God helping them in a singular way and restraining their native corruption. Without this they would have rushed, no less than very many others, into every abominable crime.
Latin
VI. Quamvis autem, ex Protestantium sensu, ad ejusmodi civilem justitiam atque honestatem gratia Christi necessaria non sit; multi tamen eorum observant illam speciali cuidam Dei auxilio esse tribuendam. Homines enim prorsus sibi relictos, nequidem ejusmodi civilem justitiam assequi posse, & qui apud Ethnicos virtutis nomine laudantur, non sine Deo singulari modo auxiliante, & nativam eorum corruptionem coercente, laudabiles ullas actiones egisse: Absque hoc enim futurum fuisse, ut non minus quam alii plurimi, in execranda quaeque facinora ruerent.