Theological Theses · §2634 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

On this view grace reaches the will only through the mind

Thesis LII. So they hold that the efficacy of God's grace exerts itself first and directly on the mind alone, and on the affections and the will only as a result and at second hand. The will and affections are renewed only through the renewing of the intellect, as the fruit and working (energeia) of the light that renews the mind passes on to those faculties, which are subject to the intellect's lead.

This can be seen in Paulus Testardus, Irenicum, thesis 424 and following.

Latin

LII. Adeoque volunt illi efficaciam gratiae divinae primario & immediate in solam mentem sese exerere, in affectus autem atque voluntatem consequenter solum & secundario: sic ut renovatio voluntatis & affectuum non fiat, nisi mediante intellectus renovatione, dum ad eas facultates, intellectus ductui subjectas, lucis mentem renovantis fructus & ἐνέργεια pervenit. Ut videre est apud Paulum Testardum in Irenico thesi 424. & sequentibus.

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