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  • Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.

    Archive 2008-07-01 2008

  • Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.

    Schillings still stupid 2008

  • Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.

    Mea Culpa | clusterflock 2008

  • Errare è umano, perseverare diabolico, üteldakse - aga Prodile pole seda vist keegi kunagi maininud.

    tatsutahime Diary Entry tatsutahime 2007

  • Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.

    I'm out of touch with my own opinion about the election. Ann Althouse 2006

  • De Causa Dei, cap. viii., this profoundly learned doctor proposes this thesis, to be confirmed in the following chapter: “Quod nullus viator, quantacunque gratia creata subnixus, solius liberi arbitrii viribus, vel etiam cure adjutorio gratiæ, possit perseverare finaliter, sine alio Dei auxilio speciali.”

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • Dei.cap. vii., concluding his disputation, that “Perseverantia habitualis est justitia habitualiter preservata; perseverantia actualis est justitiæ perseverantia actualis, ipsum vero perseverare, est justitiam præservare;” whereupon (“suo more:”) he infers this corollary: “Quod nomen perseverantiæ nullam rem absolutam essentialiter significat, sed accidentaliter, et relative, charitatem videlicet, sive justitiam, cum respectu futuræ permansionis continue usque in finem; et quod non improbabiliter posset dici perseverantiam esse ipsam relationem hujus.”

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • “Hæc dona Dei dantur electis, secundum Dei propositum vocatis, in quibus est et incipere et credere, et in fide ad hujus vitæ exitum perseverare.”

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • And the speciality of that grace he expresseth in the corollary wherewith he closeth the chapter, which is, “Quod nullus viator, solius liberi arbitrii, vel gratiæ viribus, aut amborum conjunctim, sine alio Dei auxilio speciali, potest perseverare per aliquod tempus omnino;” farther asserting the efficacy of special grace in and for every good work whatever.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • [55] “Quidam sunt, qui jam aliquamdiu luce veritatis collustrati fuerunt, et in ejus cognitione pietatisque studio tantum profecerunt, ut habitum tandem credendi sancteque vivendi comparaverint: hos non tantum ad finem usque vitæ perseverare posse, sed facile posse, ac libenter et cum voluptate perseverare velle credimus, adeo ut non nisi cum lucta et molestia ac difficultate deficere possint.” —

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

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