COROLLARY XXX.
Now if the antecedent will is interior, innate, and proper, by what marks shall we judge that it is especially distinguished, and with what properties adorned? This is the constant decree of Christian tradition1: that among the marks by which the antecedent will is distinguished and the ornaments by which it shines, infinite amplitude and absolute universality are eminent. For concerning this amplitude and absolute universality there are at hand innumerable—
—testimonies of tradition, and Christian doctors so patronize it that they not only affirm and repeat it, but also defend and vindicate it by the authority of the divine oracles and by arguments gathered from every quarter. Nor, certainly, is this wonderful, since the closest nexus of things demands that the antecedent will extend no less widely than the merciful love of God is extended. But merciful love has no other limits than those by which the human race is circumscribed.