Theological Theses · §667 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Still inexcusable — moral impossibility sits in the will’s own hardening

Refusal of the call is still inexcusable.

Moral impossibility sits in the will’s own hardening in evil.

That does not excuse sin — demons show as much.

Excuse only for blocks outside our will that we cannot remove however hard we try.

Latin

XXI. Neque propterea minus inexcusabiles existimant eos qui Deo vocanti obsequium non praestant. Idque quoniam ista moralis impossibilitas sita est in ultronea voluntatis in malo obduratione & obfirmatione, quae minime peccatum excusat, ut patet exemplo daemonum: cum solum excusemur per illa impedimenta, quae a propria nostra voluntate non pendent, & quae quantum velimus, & annitamur ipsi, tollere non valemus.

Report a mistake in this passage