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Two Dissertations · §137

Cap. 7 Arg. 2: Christ keeps and sanctifies the given—John 17; Hebrews 2:13

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2. The same is proved from those places that teach Christ, conscious of the Father’s will, directs and infallibly leads to salvation the aforesaid persons specially given to him, with special care. That would doubtless not happen unless Christ’s death—which is the meritorious cause of every saving grace granted us—had been destined to those same persons as saving and life-giving by a special intention. But let us hear the words of Scripture. John 17:9: “I ask for them; I do not ask for the world, but for those you have given me, because they are yours.” And verse 12: “I have kept them; those you gave me I have guarded.” And verse 19: “For them I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.” Nothing is clearer than that two things are affirmed in these places: first, that not all promiscuously, but certain ones, were specially given by God the Father to Christ the mediator—which has been shown to be understood of the Elect; second, that Christ, in discharging the very office of Mediator and Savior, embraces and pursues those same persons with special love, intention, and care—that is, with such love, intention, and care as produce in them the infallible effect of eternal life. That is plain from Hebrews 2:13, where Christ presents these children given him by the Father to his Father safe and sound: “Behold, I and the children God has given me.”

Latin

2. Idem evincitur ex illis locis quae docent Christum, Paternae voluntatis conscium, praedictas personas specialiter sibi datas speciali cura ad salutem dirigere & infallibiliter perducere. Quod proculdubio non fieret, nisi mors Christi, quae est omnis gratiae salutiferae nobis indultae causa meritoria, iisdem personis, ut salutifera & vivifica, speciali quadam intentione fuisset destinata. Sed verba Scripturae audiamus. Johan. xvii. 9. Pro ipsis ego rogo; non pro mundo rogo, sed pro iis quos dedisti mihi, quia tui sunt. Et ver. 12. Ego servavi eos; quos dedisti mihi custodivi. Et ver. 19. Ego pro iis sanctifico meipsum, ut ipsi quoque sint sanctificati in veritate. Nihil clarius quam hisce in locis duo affirmari: Unum, A Deo Patre non omnes promiscue, sed quosdam specialiter fuisse datos Christo mediatori: quod de Electis intelligendum esse, ostensum est: Alterum, Christum in ipso Mediatoris & Servatoris officio fungendo complecti & prosequi eosdem speciali amore, intentione ac cura, hoc est, tali amore intentione & cura quae producant in iis infallibilem effectum vitae aeternae. Quod ex Heb. ii. 13. manifeste liquet, ubi Christus hosce pueros sibi a Patre datos Patri suo representat salvos & incolumes; Ecce ego, & pueri quos dedit mihi Deus.

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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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