Cap. 7 Patrum: Fulgentius — special will and predestination in Christ

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6. Fulgentius, On the Incarnation and grace of Jesus Christ 29 (Bibliotheca Patrum, vol. 6, p. 92): Those who treat God's will that all be saved as the same toward the redeemed and the damned — when asked why God wills all to be saved and yet not all are — what answer have they? Fulgentius implies that God by a special will decreed to procure, through Christ, the salvation of those who are in fact saved; and that their opponents have nothing solid left when pressed to explain why some are actually saved by Christ's death and others are not. He shows this difference cannot be reduced to a difference of human wills (chs. 30-31). 7. Another from the same Fulgentius, On the truth of Predestination, book 3: No Christian should doubt that those God predestined to the adoption of sons were predestined in Christ before the world's foundation not only to the reward of glory but to the grace of justification, and by that predestination's benefit called and justified according to purpose. Anyone who grants that God's elect sons were so predestined in Christ to grace and glory will freely admit that Christ's death and merit were ordained and accepted in a special way for those same elect, so that from them they might obtain without fail the grace and glory marked out for them.

Latin

6. Fulgentius, De Incarn. & grat. Jesu Chr. cap. 29. p. 92. Biblioth. Patr. tom. 6. Hi qui voluntatem Dei, qua omnes homines vult salvos fieri, aequalem circa redimendos & damnandos existimant, cum interrogati fuerint cur Deus velit omnes homines salvos fieri, nec tamen omnes salvi fiant, quid respondebunt? Innuit doctissimus Fulgentius, Deum speciali voluntate illorum salutem per Christum procurandam decrevisse qui de facto salvantur; eosque qui contrarium affirmant, nihil solidi habere quod respondeant, quando urgentur ut ostendant, unde hoc discrimen oriatur, quod quidam morte Christi reapse salvantur, alii non salvantur. Ad humanarum voluntatum discrimen hoc revocari non posse demonstrat. cap. 30. & 31. 7. Adjungo aliud testimonium ejusdem Fulgentii, lib. 3. De verit. Praedest. Quos Deus praedestinavit in adoptionem Filiorum, hos non solum ad praemium glorificationis sed ad gratiam justificationis ante mundi constitutionem in Christo praedestinatos, & hujus praedestinationis beneficio secundum propositum vocatos & justificatos, nullus debet ambigere Christianus. Qui non ambigit electos Dei filios fuisse in Christo tam ad gratiam, quam ad gloriam ante mundi constitutionem praedestinatos, ille ultro fatebitur, mortem meritumque Christi fuisse speciali quadam ratione pro eisdem electis ordinatum & acceptatum, ut inde possent hanc gratiam & gloriam sibi destinatam infallibiliter obtinere.

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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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