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Note XXL
be confined to the elect. He thus shows that the Thomists
only differed from the Jansenists in the use of a word, and
agreed with them in meaning and doctrine. And he
proves the same thing in the case of the term grace
suffisantej which the Thomists admitted while the Jan
senists rejected it: Mais enfin, mon pere, cette grace
donnee a tous les hommes est suffisante ? Oui dit-il. Et
neanmoins elle n a nul effet sans grace efficace ? Cela est
vrai, dit-il. Et tous les hommes ont la suffisante, con-
tinuai-je, et tous n o.it pas efficace?
II est vrai, dit-il.
C est-a-dire, lui dis-je, que tous n ont assez de grace, et que
tous n en ont pas assez ;
c est-a-dire, que cette grace suffit,
quoiqu elle ne suffise pas ;
de nom, et insuffisante
c est-a-dire, qu elle est suflSsante
en effet. 2nd Letter. The
Thomists then admitted the term suffisante in an artifi
cial sense, which enabled them to say that such sufficient
grace was given to all, while they really held that sufficient
grace, in the natural sense of the word, was only given to
the elect. And therefore Pascal shows in this instance
again, that the Thomists only differed from the Jansenists
upon a word, while they agreed with them in meaning
and doctrine.
But the same argument by which Pascal proves that
the Thomists of the Sorbonne agreed in doctrine with the
Jansenists, proves equally that the Jansenist or Augustinian
agreed in doctrine with the Calvinist. The eigh
teenth Provincial Letter contains a long statement and
argument to show that the Jansenist doctrine of efficacious
grace differed from the Calvinist : the argument resting
upon a particular admission with respect to this grace,
which the Calvinists did not make, and the Jansenists did
the admission, viz. that man had the power to resist this
grace. He raises on this ground a broad distinction be
tween the Jansenists and the Calvinists ; that the Jan
senists allow freewill, while the Calvinists represent man
as moved like an inanimate machine. I will extract at
some length from this part of the Letter.
Vous verriez, mon pere, que non-seulement ils tien-