Cap. 6 Arg. 8: Pontificii, Arminius, Remonstrants, Corvinus—efficacious grace hung on human consent

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From the old Pelagians and Semi-Pelagians we come down to people who hate the Pelagian name yet will not drop the error. In that class I put those Papists who teach that grace is efficacious by the consent of the human will: if the will happens to assent, God pours in vivifying grace; if it resists, God’s operation that would vivify and regenerate the soul is made void. With them I also count Arminius and his disciples, who hang the gift or denial of saving grace so far on human wills that they say God by absolute good pleasure wills to convert and regenerate no one, yet wills to convert and regenerate all on condition they have not resisted his exciting grace—and leaves them unconverted if they have resisted. So the Remonstrants: ask why this person is converted and that one is not, and the answer is that God converts the one who does not oppose with fresh obstinacy, and the other is not converted because he does oppose with fresh obstinacy. They take the reason for given or denied saving grace from different acts of human choice. About God removing the stony, stubborn heart by special mercy—or not removing it by the freedom of his own will—they keep a deep silence. Corvinus likewise refers whether we have or lack the grace by which we are converted and saved not to a discrimination of God’s will but of ours. Against Bogerman, p. 263: It is certain that nobody’s conversion is precisely intended by God. A little later: once all the operations God uses to work conversion in us are in place, conversion still remains so much in our power that we can refuse to be converted. That is their position.

Latin

Sed ab antiquis Pelagianis et Semipelagianis, ad eos descendamus qui nomen Pelagianorum abominantur, errorem tamen haud aversantur. In hac classe pono illos Pontificios qui docent gratiam esse efficacem a voluntatis humanae consensu; ita ut si contingat voluntatem velle assentire, tum Deus infundat gratiam vivificantem, sin ea resistat, tum operatio Dei volentis vivificare et regenerare animam irrita reddatur. Hisce etiam annumerandos sentio Arminium, et Arminii discipulos, qui gratiae salvantis donationem aut negationem ita suspendunt ab humanis voluntatibus, ut dicant, Deum ex absoluto beneplacito neminem velle convertere et regenerare, velle autem omnes convertere et regenerare sub conditione, si ipsi gratiae ejus excitanti non restiterint, relinquere autem inconverso, si restiterint. Sic Remonstrantes, Si quaeratur quae causa sit cur hic convertatur, ille non, respondetur, Hic convertitur, quia Deus hunc non opponentem novam contumaciam convertit; ille non convertitur, quia novam contumaciam opponit. Ubi ex diversis actibus humani arbitrii petunt rationem datae et negatae Divinae gratiae salutiferae: caeterum de Deo auferente per specialem misericordiam cor lapideum et contumax, aut non-auferente pro libertate voluntatis suae, altum semper apud istos silentium est. Sic etiam Corvinus, ut habeamus vel non habeamus eam gratiam qua convertimur et salvamur, non ad discrimen Divinae sed humanae voluntatis reducit. Contra Bogerman. pag. 263. Certum est nullius conversionem precise intendi a Deo. Paulo post, Positis omnibus operationibus quibus ad conversionem in nobis efficiendam Deus utitur, manet tamen conversio ita in nostra potestate ut possimus non converti. Sic se habet istorum sententia.

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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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