inefficax

Scio quam vana sit et inefficax humanorum verborum penes afflictos consolatio, nisi verbum Dei audiatur, a quo vita, refrigeratio, solatium, poenitentia.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

If the will gives its consent, the grace which in itself is sufficient becomes efficacious; if it withholds its consent, the grace remains inefficacious (gratia inefficax), and it is due -- not to God, but -- solely to the will that the grace it reduced to one which is merely sufficient (gratia mere sufficiens).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

Damnant Donatistas et similes, [12] qui negabant licere uti ministerio malorum in Ecclesia, et They condemn the Donatists and such like, who denied that it was lawful to use the ministry of evil sentiebant ministerium malorum inutile et inefficax esse. men in the

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

Neque enim affixa est signis Dei gratia, quin citra adminiculum signi libere eam distribuat, si velit, deinde multi signum recipiunt, qui tamen gratiae non fiunt participes, quia signum omnibus est commune, hoc est, bonis indifferenter ac malis; Spiritus autem nonnisi electis confertur; acqui signum, ut diximus, absque Spiritu est inefficax.

A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians 1797-1878 1860

Since merely sufficient grace (gratia mere sufficiens) in its very concept contains the idea of a withholding of consent on the part of free will, and is therefore at the very outset destined to inefficiency (gratia inefficax), the question in its last analysis reduces itself to the relation between free will and efficacious grace (gratia efficax), which contains the very idea that by it and with it the free will does precisely that which this grace desires should be done.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Novatian (de trinit. 14) exactly reproduces the old idea, "Si homo tantummodo Christus, cur homo in orationibus mediator invocatur, cum invocatio hominis ad præstandam salutem inefficax judicetur."

History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

* sentiebant ministerium malorum inutile et inefficax esse.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

Adeo verbum Dei inefficax esse censuerunt, ut regnum Christi sine mendaciis promoveri posse diffiderent? atque utinam illi firimi mentiri coepissent, "apud La Roche Mem.

Five Pebbles from the Brook George Bethune English 1807