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Two Dissertations · §154

Cap. 7 Quartum Rat. 6: offering matches intercession—John 17 / Suarez / Vázquez

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Ratio 6. Sixth, keep the proportion between Christ’s offering for people and his prayer or intercession for them. From John 17, and from his named prayer for Peter that Peter’s faith not fail, it is plain that Christ interceded with the Father for the elect to keep a firm, unconquered faith to the end and obtain salvation efficaciously. Anyone who denies that the gift of perseverance was won for special persons by Christ’s special prayer would credit free choice with the greatest of all spiritual benefits. That granted, I add: just as Christ specially prayed for special benefits for the elect, so he specially offered himself to merit those same benefits. On this special prayer and offering Suarez says (On 3, disp. 41, p. 635): as Christ prayed in different ways for people, so he merited in different ways; though he is universal Redeemer of all and a sufficient cause of salvation, in a special mode he is the efficacious cause of salvation for those he makes obedient. So the prayer by which he specially and efficaciously prayed for the elect rests on the offering by which he specially and efficaciously offered himself for them. See the force: whatever Christ obtains for particular persons by special intercession, he merited for them with the Father by an offering specially pertaining to them. By intercession he obtains for the elect faith, perseverance, and salvation itself; therefore, to procure those goods for them infallibly, he specially offered himself for them. Vázquez does not doubt (On 1, q. 23, art. 5, disp. 94, ch. 3) that by peculiar prayer and will Christ applied his merits to those who were predestinate and elect.

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Rat. 6. Sexto, argumentari possumus ab illa proportione quae est retinenda inter oblationem Christi pro hominibus, & orationem sive intercessionem pro eisdem. Orasse Christum sive intercessisse apud Patrem suum pro electis, ut fidem firmam & invictam usque ad extremum retinerent, & salutem efficaciter obtinerent, ex Ioann. xvii. atque ex oratione nominatim pro Petro facta, ne fides ejus deficeret, promptum est colligere. Et sane qui eximium illud donum perseverantiae specialibus personis speciali oratione Christi impetratum negaverit, is beneficium omnium beneficiorum spiritualium longe maximum libero arbitrio acceptum referret. Jam hoc posito, illud addam, Sicuti Christus specialiter oravit pro specialibus beneficiis in electos conferendis, ita specialiter seipsum obtulit pro eisdem beneficiis promerendis. De hac oratione & oblatione speciali Suarez ait, In 3. disp. 41. p. 635. Sicut Christus diversimode pro hominibus oravit, ita diversimode meruit: propter quod, licet omnium sit universalis Redemptor, & sufficiens causa salutis, speciali tamen modo est causa efficax salutis eorum quos sibi facit obedientes. Oratio igitur, qua Christus specialiter & efficaciter oravit pro electis, fundamentum habuit in oblatione, qua pro eisdem specialiter & efficaciter sese obtulit. Videtis vim argumenti; Quicquid Christus impetrat singularibus personis per specialem intercessionem, id promeruit iisdem apud Patrem per oblationem suiipsius ad eos specialiter pertinentem: Sed per intercessionem impetrat electis fidem, perseverantiam, ipsam denique salutem: Ergo, ut haec bona illis infallibiliter procuraret, specialiter sese pro iis obtulit. Non dubitat, inquit Vasquez, Christum peculiari oratione & voluntate merita sua illis applicasse qui praedestinati & electi fuerunt, In 1. qu. 23. art. 5. disp. 94. cap. 3.

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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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