DISPUTATION ON THE SECOND EXCELLENCE of the state of innocence, that is, on Sanctifying Grace — Commentaries and Disputations on Genesis, Volume I

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DISPUTATION ON THE SECOND EXCELLENCE of the state of innocence, that is, on Sanctifying Grace.¹

DISPUTATIO DE SECUNDA EXCELLENTIA status innocentiae, id est, de Gratia gratum faciente.

In hac disputatione, similiter ut in ea quae hanc praecessit, quaestiones quinque pertractandae sunt. Prima quaestio est: Utrum Adam cum gratia gratum faciente creatus sit. Secunda, an illa gratia cum qua creatum esse Adamum ostendemus tanta fuerit, ut penitus excluderet omne peccatum etiam veniale. Tertia, Utrum homines in statu innocentiae maiorem habuissent gratiam quam in statu legis Evangelicae sanctissimi homines habuerunt. Quarta, Utrum si Adam non peccasset, posteri eius cum gratia nati fuissent. Quinta, Utrum si Adam non peccasset, posteri eius fuissent in gratia confirmati.

In this disputation, just as in the one that preceded it, five questions are to be treated. The first question is: Whether Adam was created with sanctifying grace. The second, whether that grace with which we shall show Adam to have been created was so great that it utterly excluded all sin, even venial. The third, whether men in the state of innocence would have had greater grace than the most holy men had in the state of the Evangelical law. The fourth, whether, if Adam had not sinned, his descendants would have been born with grace. The fifth, whether, if Adam had not sinned, his descendants would have been confirmed in grace.²

Translator’s notes

MAJOR DIVIDER: the second disputation of Book V, treating the second internal good of innocence—sanctifying grace (gratia gratum faciens). Follows the first disputation, on Adam's knowledge. ↩
Preface enumerating the five questions of the second disputation (on sanctifying grace). ↩