Cap. 6 Arg. 8 Primo close: Fulgentius and Aquinas—original demerit justly withholds Gospel grace

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Fulgentius, On the Truth of Predestination book 1: to people who use reason God either supplies or withholds the persons fitted for their salvation—holding justice toward some, showing mercy to others. Meaning: he sends Gospel preachers, or does not, by his good pleasure—sends when he means to display mercy, withholds when he means to exercise justice. From the same Fulgentius I add: the common guilt all contracted in Adam is enough for Gospel grace to be justly denied to anyone. So he says there: the grace by which we are saved is never given for a prior good desert, yet it is denied only for a prior evil desert; for the first man passed the deserts of his sin to all. So for Fulgentius original demerit is already a just reason to withhold Christ's grace from anyone. Aquinas owns the same (2a 2ae q. 2 a. 5 ad 1): helps of grace are given to some in mercy, and in justice not given to others, as punishment for prior sin—at least original sin. All this confirms what we set out first: there is no decreed law, tied to Christ's death, that the means of Gospel grace must be administered to the whole human race. God, even with Christ's death in view, can by right deny—and has in fact denied to some—the very calling of grace.

Latin

Fulgentius, lib. 1. De verit. Praedest. Deus hominibus ratione utentibus congruas ad salutem personas aut procurat, aut denegat, in aliis justitiam tenens, in aliis misericordiam tribuens. Sensus est, Deum mittere vel non mittere praedicatores Evangelicos pro beneplacito suo: mittit quando vult ostendere misericordiam suam, non mittit quando vult exserere justitiam. Quinetiam et illud addo ex eodem Fulgentio, Communem illum reatum quem omnes homines contraxerunt in Adamo, sufficere ad hoc ut gratia Evangelica cuivis homini juste denegetur. Sic Fulgentius ibid.: Haec Dei gratia qua salvamur, non alicui praecedenti bono merito datur, nec tamen nisi praecedente malo merito denegatur. Primus enim homo peccati sui merita transmisit in omnes, &c. Unde patet, ex mente Fulgentii demeritum originale satis justam causam esse cur gratia Christi cuivis homini denegetur. Quod ipse Aquinas agnoscit, 2a 2ae qu. 2. art. 5. resp. ad 1., ubi ait auxilia gratiae quibusdam dari misericorditer, quibusdam ex justitia non dari, in poenam praecedentis peccati, saltem originalis. Ex hisce omnibus habemus quod primo in loco confirmandum proposuimus; nempe, Nullam esse legem decretam aut statutam, in ordine ad mortem Christi, de administrandis gratiae Evangelicae mediis toti humano generi; sed Deum, non obstante ullo ad mortem Christi respectu, negare posse de jure, et de facto negasse aliquibus ipsam vocationem gratiae.

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John Davenant — Dissertationes duae from the 1650 Cambridge Latin. Honest partial through De praedestinatione Cap. 1 subject tip; Cap. 1 mid-Thesis and remainder remain; De praedestinatione Cap. 1 Prolegomena IV distinguishing conditions tip; De praedestinatione Cap. II Variae (Pelagian opening) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. II Scholastici / Vasquez Arg. 1 tip; De praedestinatione Cap. II Arg. 2 praescientia tip; De praedestinatione Cap. II Arg. 3 (1 Cor. 2:9) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. II Arg. 4 (2 Tim. 2:21) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. II Arg. 5 (1 Tim. 2:4) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. II Arg. 6 (James 2:5) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. II Arg. 7 (Apoc. 3:11) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 1 (common inefficacious will) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 2 (Vasquez physical vs moral media) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 3 (king/prize / victory foresight) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 4 (optimum modus / crown of justice) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 5 (acceptor personarum) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 6 (misericordia/congruitas) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 7 (equal disposition) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 8 (few saved / major part) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 9 (Stephen / glory from others' sins) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 10 (mere beneplacitum / Predestinati) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III reprobation ratio (foresight of sin) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 12 (efficacious election / free choice) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 13 (hortation/prayer) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 14 (decree/execution conformity) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. IV Arminianorum open tip; De praedestinatione Cap. IV Arg. 1 Sol tip; De praedestinatione Cap. IV Arg. 7 (τρόπος; Rom. 9:22) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. IV Arg. 8 (ordo exsecutionis) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. IV Arg. 9 (Christus fundamentum) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. V Obj. 1 (amor ad salutem) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. V Obj. 2 (actualis vitae datio) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. V Obj. 3 (qualis existens) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. V Obj. 4 (justitiae satisfactio) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. V Obj. 5 (natura vitae aeternae) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. V Obj. 6 (Christus a decreto) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. V Obj. 7 (Evangelium invertitur) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. V Obj. 8 (arcana/revelata) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI (Orthodoxa sententia) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 2 (gratia specialis) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 3 (Scripturae) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 4 (vocatio) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 5 (adjutorium) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 7 (inconveniens) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 8 (perseverantia) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 9 (unica ratio) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 10 (abyssus) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 11 (efficacia) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 12 (segregativum) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 13 (pura gratia) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VII open (reprobatio) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VII Junius trifariam tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VIII open (adversariorum) tip; Cap. VIII peccata-causa tip; Cap. VIII fewer-reprobates tip; Cap. VIII Argentina tip; Cap. VIII dives-misericordia tip; Cap. VIII Corvinus tip into Cap. IX; Cap. IX Ab Adae tip; Cap. IX Ab Adae Christus omnibus+Minor tip; Cap. IX Arg. 3 Sol tip; Cap. IX vocatione Evangelica tip; Cap. IX vocatione Sol cont. tip; Cap. IX Arg. 6 Sol cont. tip.

English follows locked 1650 Cambridge Latin of De morte Christi Cap. 1-6 opening (origin + Thesis 1 + Cap. 2 Rat. 1-ultima + Cap. 3 Satisfit through Obj. 17 + Cap. 4 Thesis 2 tip through Mem. 1 close + Cap. 4 Mem. 2 through Mem. 3 tip + Cap. 4 Mem. 3 possible-faith through Thesis 2 close + Cap. 5 Thesis 3 tip through Mem. 2 Scripture close + Cap. 5 Mem. 2 Rat. 1-4 + Cap. 5 Mem. 2 Fathers tip + Cap. 5 Mem. 2 Huberiana objections tip through Obj. 3 Solut close + Cap. 5 Mem. 2 elect-from-eternity objections tip through Obj. 3 Solut close + Cap. 5 Mem. 2 Scripture elect objections tip through Cap. 5 thesis close + Cap. 6 opening tip through Arg. 1 close before Arg. 2), reconstructed from the Internet Archive PDF (pdftotext + tesseract) of the Roger Daniel folio with DjVu OCR check. The 1683 reprint was not used as copy-text. No modern English was copied.

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