Theological Theses · §2565 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Tyre and Sidon called incongruously, Ephesus congruously

Thesis CXXVIII. On that basis they say that God decreed to call and stir certain people to conversion, the Tyrians and Sidonians for example, by means and in a manner that did truly give them power to turn to God if they wished, but that he foresaw with certainty would have no effect on them. He did not call them by the means he foresaw would convert them if used.

The Ephesians, by contrast, he willed to call not in a manner they would reject, but in the one by which he foreknew for certain they would be led to faith. It follows that God decreed to give the first a grace by which they could be converted if they wished, and the second a grace by which they would in fact be converted.

Latin

CXXVIII. Deinde hoc posito dicunt Deum certos homines, exempli gratia, Tyrios & Sidonios decrevisse vocare & excitare ad conversionem, iis mediis & ea ratione, quae quidem potestatem eis revera dabant sese ad Deum convertendi si vellent, sed quae tamen certo praevidebat nullum apud ipsos effectum habitura; non vero iis mediis, quae si adhiberentur, praevidebat ipsos convertendos. Contra vero voluisse Ephesios, verbi gratia, vocare, non ea ratione quae ab ipsis respuenda esset, sed qua certo praesciebat ipsos ad fidem fore adducendos. Unde sequitur Deum decrevisse illis quidem dare gratiam, qua converti possent si vellent; at vero his gratiam qua actu converterentur.

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