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Cap. 7 Scholastici: Stapleton and Estius — efficacy for future friends / elect

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7. Stapleton (Moral Promptuary, Second Sunday after Easter, p. 254): Dying, Christ died effectually for friends alone — for friends-to-be after each one's conversion, not for those who were already friends. This Romanist does not shrink from granting Christ's dying a singular intention toward the elect. They are the future friends after conversion for whose effectual redemption he laid down his life while, with the rest, they were still ungodly, enemies, sinners, dead in sins. He is said to have died for all humans as to sufficiency; for his sheep — his elect — as to this efficacy, that is, with a singular intention, from his death's merit, to give them the effectual grace by which they believe and are saved. 8. Estius on Titus 2:14, Who gave himself for us: that is, who in assumed flesh delivered himself up, whether for all humans or specially for the elect, in whose person Paul often speaks. Christ's death-price suffices to redeem and save all, yet is applied unto salvation to the elect alone. Estius thus hints two things: Christ's offering had a general respect to all and a special to the elect; and that special respect must be defined as joined to an intention of applying it with certainty. He did not say the elect alone apply Christ's death to themselves by free choice's powers, but that it is applied unto salvation to them alone — by electing God, intending this good for his elect from Christ's death by special favor.

Latin

7. Stapletonus, Promptuar. Moral. Dominic. 2. post Pasch. pag. 254. Christus moriens efficaciter quidem pro solis amicis mortuus est, idque pro futuris amicis post conversionem singulorum, non pro iis qui antea amici fuerant. Non veretur hic Papista singularem Christi morientis intentionem quoad Electos agnoscere. Nam hi sunt illi amici post conversionem futuri, pro quibus efficaciter redimendis Christus animam suam posuit, quando cum caeteris impii, inimici, peccatores, in peccatis mortui exstiterunt. Mortuus quidem dicitur pro omnibus hominibus, sed quoad sufficientiam: pro ovibus autem, sive electis suis, quoad hanc efficaciam, id est, cum singulari intentione ex merito mortis suae dandi illis gratiam illam efficacem unde credant & salventur. 8. Estius, ad illa verba, Tit. ii. 14. Qui dedit semetipsum pro nobis, Hoc est, inquit, qui in assumpta carne tradidit semetipsum, sive pro omnibus hominibus, sive speciatim pro electis, in quorum persona Paulus saepe loquitur. Nam pretium mortis Christi sufficit quidem omnibus redimendis & salvandis, sed solis ad salutem applicatur electis. Hactenus ille. Duo hic innuit Estius: Unum, Christi oblationem generalem respectum ad omnes, ac specialem ad electos habuisse; Alterum, Hunc specialem respectum in eo constitui oportere, quod cum intentione certi applicandi sit conjunctus. Non enim dixit, Soli Electi hanc mortem Christi viribus liberi arbitrii sibi applicant ad salutem, sed, Hisce solis applicatur ad salutem, Dei scilicet eligentis, & hoc tantum bonum electis suis ex Christi morte intendentis, favore speciali.

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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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