and will not allow any grace to be sufficient which is not also efficacious. What is the view of the Dominican?—
“It is rather an odd one,” he says; “for while they agree with the Jesuits in allowing a *sufficient grace* given to all men, they nevertheless hold that with this grace alone men cannot act, but require further from God an *efficacious grace* which determines their will to action, and which is not given to all.”
In short, this grace is sufficient without being so. It bears the same name as the grace of the Jesuits, but in reality the Dominican doctrine is that of the Jansenists, that men require efficacious grace in order to pious action. What is the meaning of all this jumble of opinion? Simply, that the Dominicans are too powerful to be quarrelled with. The Jesuits are content that they should so far use the same language with them.
“They do not insist upon their denying the necessity of efficacious grace. This would be to press them too far. People should not tyrannise over their friends; and the Jesuits have really gained enough. But the world is content with words; and so the name of sufficient grace being received on all sides, though in different senses, none except the most subtle theologians can dream that the expression does not signify the same to the Jacobins and the Jesuits; and the result will show that the latter are not the greatest dupes.”