[646] Sess. 7, can. 8, 9.
[647] “Educative” grace which imparts “strength” is probably what we call actual grace, not sanctifying grace. Luther makes no distinction either as regards the term or the matter. His determinism, with its “servum arbitrium,” left no room for actual grace to perform any real work; this he admits more plainly of the time preceding justification than of that which follows it. Cp. “Schol. Rom.,” p. 206: “Ad primam gratiam sicut et ad gloriam semper nos habemus passive sicut mulier ad conceptum,” etc. It is here he introduces his “mystical” recommendation, viz. to suffer God’s strong grace, and without any act of reason or will “in tenebras ac velut in perditionem et annihilationem ire,” however hard that may be. Here we find nothing about any “educative and moulding energy.”
[648] “Schol. Rom.,” pp. 170-6.
[649] “Schol. Rom.,” p. 178.
[650] “Luther und Luthertum,” 1¹, p.515 f.
[651] Ibid., p. 517, n. 3.
[652] “Schol. Rom.,” p. 175 f.
[653] “Schol. Rom.,” p. 234 f., 277.
[654] Cp. Denifle, 1, p. 518 f.
[655] “Schol. Rom.,” p. 303.