Theological Theses · §2533 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

The motions of the will in prevenient grace arise naturally

Thesis XCV. On his view the motions of the will that make up prevenient grace are certain affections. Once knowledge has gone before, they raise and invite the will to elicit hope, to love God or to grieve for sins, before it elicits the act of hope, or of love, or of grief arising from love of him.

The will does not cooperate in these motions and affections as free choice, but only as will, that is, as a kind of nature. Whether it wants them or not, they rise up in it naturally once the knowledge is present. They have the character of grace only if God at the same time flows specially into them, so that they become supernatural and are also fitted in a certain way for salvation.

Latin

XCV. Motus vero voluntatis, in quibus gratia praeveniens consistit, ex illius mente, sunt certi quidam affectus, quibus praevia cognitione, voluntas erigitur, & invitatur, tum ad eliciendam spem, tum ad diligendum Deum, aut dolendum de peccatis, antequam actum spei, aut amoris, vel doloris ex dilectione ejus eliciat. Ad hujusmodi vero motus & affectus non cooperatur voluntas, qua liberum arbitrium est, sed solum qua voluntas, & natura quaedam est. Quippe velit nolit, praesente cognitione, naturaliter in ea insurgunt. Rationem autem gratiae non habent, nisi Deus simul in eosdem specialiter influat, ut evadant supernaturales, & certo quoque modo ad salutem accommodentur.

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