Theological Theses · §2296 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Regeneration too taken strictly and widely

Thesis XXXVI. In the same way regeneration, or sanctification, is sometimes taken strictly, for a habitual change in a man through infused habits of righteousness and holiness. Sometimes it is taken more widely, for all the effects of divine grace in us by which we are brought from the state of sin into the state of righteousness and of the children of God.

Taken so, the grace of regeneration or sanctification includes the beginning, the progress and the completion of the efficacious grace by which God abolishes the dominion of sin in us and makes us servants of righteousness. In Scripture's words, it makes us put off the old man and put on the new, created after God in righteousness and true holiness. This is what Ames means when he says that regeneration is sometimes taken for the whole series of helps by which we are moved toward it (Theological disputation on the preparation of the sinner for conversion, thesis 11).

Latin

XXXVI. Eodem modo regeneratio seu sanctificatio aliquando stricte accipitur, pro habituali quadam hominis immutatione per habitus justitiae & sanctitatis infusos, quandoque vero latius pro omnibus illis gratiae divinae in nobis effectis, quibus a statu peccati in statum justitiae & filiorum Dei transferimur. Et sic gratia regenerationis, sive sanctificationis complectitur initium, progressum & complementum, efficacis illius gratiae per quam Deus peccati Dominium in nobis abolet, & nos efficit justitiae servos, sive ut loquitur scriptura, facit ut veterem hominem exuamus, & induamus novum, qui secundum Deum creatus est, in justitia & sanctitate veritatis, Quod dicit Amesius regenerationem aliquando sumi pro tota serie auxiliorum, quibus ad eam movemur. Disput. Theologica de praeparatione peccatoris ad conversionem. Thesi 11.

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