The Complete Works Of Francisco Suárez - On Grace, Part III, Volume X - Francisco Suárez

This tenth volume completes Suárez’s extensive treatise On Grace, bringing together his mature reflections on the supernatural order of salvation within the scholastic tradition. It draws together the themes developed in the previous volumes, offering a final synthesis of grace, human freedom, and divine providence.

The work addresses the culmination of the life of grace in perseverance and final salvation, examining how divine assistance sustains the just soul until death. Suárez carefully analyzes the doctrines of predestination and reprobation, emphasizing the balance between divine foreknowledge, providence, and the reality of human liberty.

A further focus is placed on the relationship between grace and the sacraments, especially their role as instruments through which God communicates sanctifying grace. Suárez also clarifies remaining disputed questions among scholastic schools, refining his positions through precise distinctions and systematic argumentation.

Throughout, the volume exemplifies Suárez’s mature theological method: a careful synthesis of metaphysical reasoning, theological tradition, and doctrinal clarity. As the concluding part of On Grace, it presents a unified account of how human beings are brought to their supernatural end through the cooperative action of divine grace and free will.