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Cap. 7 Scholastici close: Suarez and Vasquez before Reformed Theologi nostri

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9. Next the Jesuits. However they defend universal grace and universal redemption, they dare not deny this special, effectual ordination and intention of the saving passion toward the elect alone. Let two chiefs speak: Suarez and Vasquez. Suarez on Aquinas III q.19 (Disp. p. 635 §41): as Christ prayed diversely for humans, so he merited diversely — for some sufficiently, for others effectually. So though he is everyone's universal Redeemer and a sufficient cause of salvation, in a special way he is the effectual cause of salvation for those he makes obedient. It is incredible he offered his merits no differently for those he knew the Father had elect than for others, when he saw the Father's will was that they be saved without fail, and not others. Suarez thus grants that Christ's death and merits save the elect from the special mode of offering and the offerer's will — not from a chance act of human will laying hold of them. 10. Vasquez clearly owns this special intention toward the elect in applying his merits (on Aquinas I q.23, disp. 49, c.3, p. 687): I do not doubt Christ by peculiar prayer and will applied his merits to those predestined and elect. The same on Aquinas III q.19, disp. 77, c.5, p. 384, cites Andreas Vega: Christ's merits do not profit all effectually, because for those they do not profit he did not pray effectually or offer his passion. So not only the old Fathers but even newer Romanists confess what we aim to prove: God constituted Christ's death a universal saving cause applicable to all, yet by a special intention of offerer and accepter it is also a particular saving cause to be applied without fail, and singularly, to all and only the elect. See also Malderus, Antisynod, p. 138.

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9. Venio ad Jesuitas, qui utcunque universalem gratiam, & universalem redemtionem defendant, tamen hanc specialem & efficacem salutiferae passionis ordinationem & intentionem quoad solos electos non audent inficiari. Pro reliquis loquantur duo ex antesignanis, Suarez, & Vasquez. Suarez, in 3. Aquin. qu. 19. Disp. pag. 635. §. 41. Sicut Christus diversimode pro hominibus oravit, ita diversimode meruit, aliis sufficienter, aliis efficaciter. Propter quod, licet omnium sit universalis Redemtor, & sufficiens causa salutis, speciali tamen modo est causa efficax salutis eorum, quos sibi facit obedientes. Incredibile enim est, non aliter obtulisse Christum sua merita pro illis, quos sciebat esse electos a Patre, quam pro aliis, cum videret esse Patris voluntatem ut illi infallibiliter salvarentur, & non alii. Largitur nobis Suarez, Christi mortem ac merita esse efficacia ad salutem electorum ex speciali modo oblationis & voluntate offerentis, non ex casuali seu contingente actu humanae voluntatis eam apprehendentis. 10. Vasquez hanc specialem Christi intentionem quoad electos in applicatione meritorum suorum clare agnoscit, in 1. Aquinat. qu. 23. disp. 49. cap. 3. pag. 687. Ego non dubito Christum peculiari oratione & voluntate merita sua illis applicasse, qui praedestinati & electi fuerunt. Idem, in 3. Aquinat. qu. 19. disp. 77. cap. 5. pag. 384. inducit Andream Vegam asserentem, merita Christi non omnibus efficaciter prodesse, quia pro illis (quibus non prosunt) efficaciter Christus non oravit, nec obtulit suam passionem. Habemus igitur non solum antiquos Patres, sed ipsos etiam Papistas neotericos fatentes, quod nos demonstrare conamur, nimirum, Christi mortem sic a Deo constitutam universalem causam salutis omnibus applicabilem, ut interim, per specialem quandam intentionem offerentis & acceptantis, constituatur particularis causa salutis omnibus & solis electis infallibiliter & singulariter applicanda. Vide etiam Malderi Antisynod. pag. 138.

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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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