Theological Theses · §2394 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Tilenus: natural and supernatural gifts; gifts for one's own salvation and for the Church

Thesis V. Tilenus also notes that when grace is taken for the gifts and effects of God's favour, in a broad sense it covers nature itself together with its endowments and gifts. Properly, though, it is limited to certain supernatural gifts that God grants to people.

He holds that these gifts are in turn of two kinds. Some bear properly and directly on the salvation of the one who receives them, as effects of that active grace by which God justifies us; faith, love and hope are of this kind. Others concern not so much the personal salvation of those who receive them as the common use and building up of the whole Church, such as the gifts of prophecy, tongues and miracles and others like them.

Latin

V. Porro quum gratia sumitur pro divini favoris donis atque effectis observat Tilenus illam communi quadam significatione ipsam naturam, & illius dotes & munera complecti, proprie tamen restringi ad dona quaedam supernaturalia hominibus a Deo concessa. Quae dona rursus vult duorum esse generum. Quaedam enim proprie & directe spectare salutem ejus qui recipit, ut effecta gratiae illius activae qua nos Deus justificat: Qualia sunt fides & charitas & spes. Alia vero non tam pertinere ad peculiarem eorum quibus dantur salutem, quam ad communem totius Ecclesiae usum & aedificationem: qualia sunt donum prophetiae, linguarum & miraculorum & ii quae sunt ejusmodi.

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