Thesis I. Many questions about grace and free choice are argued with great heat, and to understand and clear them up it helps a great deal to know the various senses and distinctions of grace used in the Christian schools.
Our aim is to throw some light on the controversies that occupy and divide those schools. So it will serve that aim well if we set out these senses and distinctions as briefly and clearly as we can.
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THESIS I. AD intelligentiam & elucidationem multarum quaestionum, quae circa gratiam & liberum arbitrium, magna contentione animorum, agitantur, plurimum conducit nosse varias acceptiones & distinctiones gratiae, quae usitatae sunt in Scholis Christianis. Itaque non parum facit ad scopum nostrum, qui est lucem aliquam inferre controversiis illis, quae Scholas Christianas exercent & dividunt, si acceptiones & distinctiones istas, quantum fieri poterit, breviter & dilucide exponamus.