Theological Theses · §2350 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Indeliberate and deliberate motions

Thesis XXXI. According to him, the motions of the first kind are indeliberate: our faculties produce them only physically, not freely. Those of the second kind are free and deliberate.

The first kind covers devout thoughts and devout desires that God sends directly, without our consent. The second covers all the acts of the Christian virtues that we bring forth with the help of God's grace.

Latin

XXXI. Prioris generis motus, juxta ipsum, sunt indeliberati, & physice tantum non libere a facultatibus nostris eliciti: posterioris vero liberi sunt & deliberati. Ad prius genus pertinent piae cogitationes & pia desideria, absque nostro consensu immediate a Deo immissa: ad posterius vero, omnes virtutum Christianarum actus, quos Dei gratia juvante elicimus.

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