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Cap. 7 Quartum Rat. 8: fruitful application proves antecedent intention—Phil 2:13 / John 15:5

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Ratio 8. The event shows that some people really and efficaciously apply Christ’s death, with its infinite merit, to themselves for salvation. Was that application made according to Christ’s antecedent, efficacious intention in offering himself on the cross—or against it, or without it preceding? If they grant in the dying Christ an antecedent special will for this efficacious application that falls to all the elect and to them alone, we have what we aim to prove: that by God’s and Christ’s special intention this death is destined for the elect as to be applied efficaciously. No one will say a person can apply Christ’s death to himself efficaciously against Christ’s intention. The only remaining claim is that people make the application efficacious by free will without any preceding special, efficacious intention of the divine will. Piety forbids that. First, in good and saving acts God’s efficacious will stands before the human: “It is God who works in you both to will and to accomplish” (Phil. 2:13), and he works nothing in us antecedently that he did not antecedently decree to work. Second, in works that belong to salvation we can do nothing without Christ: “Without me you can do nothing” (John 15:5). What we can do through Christ we receive power to do because of Christ’s merit—which, without the dying and meriting Christ’s antecedent special intention, is assigned to no one. So whoever has obtained this excellent grace and already applied Christ’s merit to himself efficaciously must confess he received that applying faculty above others from the special kindness of God and of Christ, who specially intended, destined, and applied his merit to him. The fruitful application in the predestinate itself shows that in Christ offering himself, and in God accepting the sacrifice, there was a special efficacious intention of that application for the predestinate. And that is the singular privilege of the elect in Christ’s death this thesis aims to establish.

Latin

Rat. 8. Certum est ex eventu, quosdam homines mortem Christi cum infinito ejusdem merito realiter & efficaciter ad salutem sibi applicare. Quaero igitur utrum haec applicatio facta sit secundum antecedaneam & efficacem intentionem Christi in cruce seipsum offerentis, an contra eandem, sive absque eadem praecedente. Si concesserint in Christo moriente antecedaneam & specialem voluntatem de hac efficaci applicatione quae omnibus electis, & solis electis contingit, habemus id ipsum quod evincere conamur, nempe hanc mortem ex speciali intentione Dei & Christi electis ut efficaciter applicandam destinari. Jam vero, contra Christi intentionem posse ullum hominem mortem ejus sibi efficaciter applicare, nemo dixerit. Id unum reliquum est, ut dicant fieri hanc applicationem efficacem ab iisdem hominibus pro libertate suae voluntatis absque praecedente ulla speciali & efficaci intentione Divinae voluntatis. At pietas vetat hoc asserere: Primo, quia in actibus bonis & salutiferis efficax Dei voluntas se habet antecedenter ad efficacem voluntatem humanam. Deus enim est qui in nobis operatur & velle & perficere, Phil. ii. 13. nec quicquam operatur in nobis antecedenter, quod non antecedenter decrevit operari. Secundo, quia in operibus hisce ad salutem pertinentibus nihil possumus sine Christo: Ioann. xv. 5. Sine me nihil potestis facere. At quod possumus per Christum, ejus rei faciundae potestatem accipimus propter Christi meritum: quod absque antecedanea & speciali intentione Christi morientis & merentis nemini assignatur. Quicunque igitur eximiam hanc gratiam obtinuit, meritum Christi sibi jam efficaciter applicaverit, fateri debet, se hanc ipsam applicandi facultatem prae aliis accepisse a speciali benignitate Dei Christique hoc suum meritum specialiter illi intendentis, destinantis, applicantis. Sic ipse eventus fructuosae applicationis in praedestinatis demonstrat fuisse in Christo offerente seipsum, & Deo acceptante hoc sacrificium, specialem & efficacem intentionem ejusdem applicationis quoad praedestinatos. Atque hoc est illud ipsum singulare privilegium electorum in morte Christi quod hac thesi nostra conamur stabilire.

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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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