Theological Theses · §2396 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Cameron's division of the gifts

Thesis VII. Cameron's distinction, in the digression on grace in the first volume of his lectures, is not far from this either. He says that some gifts of grace come to no one who is not also saved, while others come even to those who are not saved.

He also divides God's gifts into those that help others only and not ourselves, such as all of God's gifts bestowed on the ungodly, and those that often help others and sometimes do not, but always help the people on whom they are bestowed. Faith, hope and love are of this second kind.

Latin

VII. Neque multum abludit distinctio Cameronis tomo primo praelectionum digressione de gratia, ubi dicit gratiae dona quaedam esse quae nullis contingunt, qui iidem non servantur: alia vero quae illis etiam obtingunt qui non servantur. Item Dei dona dividi in ea quae aliis tantum, non etiam nobis prosunt, qualia sunt omnia Dei dona in impios collata: & ea dona quae saepe aliis prosunt, aliquando non prosunt, semper tamen iis prosunt in quos sunt collata, qualia sunt fides, spes, & charitas.

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