Cap. 3 Obj. 7: Father and Spirit save only the elect — must the Son's oblation be equally narrow?
Obj. 7. The Father's will, the Son's oblation, and the Holy Spirit's saving operation are equally wide, and regard the same persons. But the Father's will is to save the elect alone; and the Spirit, by infusing faith and giving perseverance, in fact saves the elect alone: therefore Christ's death or oblation is not to be extended except to the elect alone, and for that reason ought not to be considered as a remedy applicable to all and each unto salvation by God's ordination.
Sol. If the Major proposition is understood of the will of the predestinating God, which is always joined with infallibility of event, and of that special operation of the sanctifying Spirit which serves the execution of this decree, I say it is not absolutely true: for Christ's death or oblation somehow regards certain persons whom predestination does not embrace. Predestination is God's secret decree, by which he determined with himself from eternity to whom from the infinite merit of Christ's death he wills to give efficacious grace and eternal life infallibly; but Christ's oblation on the cross is a common benefit granted to the human race, by whose virtue anyone, provided he embraces it with true faith, can claim eternal life for himself according to God's will revealed in the Gospel. So Christ himself speaks in (John 3:14–15): As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Although therefore God's predestination and the efficacious calling that depends on it embrace no non-elect person, yet as Christ's oblation in the Gospel, so also Christ's oblation on the cross, is wider, and is as applicable to any human being as it is announcible, and will become salvific to anyone provided he believes — God's secret will meanwhile being left to him, according to which he has determined mercifully to cause some to believe, to permit others to their innate hardness, and in them not to cause that they believe. Finally I add also this: that there was in Christ himself a will according to which he willed his death to look to all and each, and also one according to which he willed the same to pertain to the elect alone. He willed it to look to all Adam's posterity to be saved, and in fact to save all, provided they embraced it with true faith; he willed it so to pertain to the elect alone that from its merit all things that look to obtaining salvation should be infallibly given them. And in this sense we confess that Christ's oblation is equally wide with God's predestination — of which more in its place.
Latin
Obj. 7. Patris voluntas, Filii oblatio, Spiritus sancti salutaris operatio aeque late patent, easdemque personas respiciunt: At Patris voluntas est servare solos electos; et Spiritus, infundendo fidem ac donando perseverantiam, de facto servat solos electos: Ergo mors sive oblatio Christi non est extendenda nisi ad solos electos, atque idcirco non debet considerari ut remedium ex ordinatione Dei omnibus et singulis applicabile ad salutem. Sol. Si de voluntate Dei praedestinantis, quae semper cum infallibilitate eventus conjuncta est, et de speciali illa operatione Spiritus sanctificantis, quae huic decreto exsequendo inservit, intelligatur Major propositio, dico non esse absolute veram: Nam mors Christi sive oblatio, aliquo modo respicit quasdam personas, quas praedestinatio non complectitur. Praedestinatio est arcanum Dei decretum, quo apud se ab aeterno praestituit quibus ex infinito merito mortis Christi velit gratiam efficacem et vitam aeternam infallibiliter donare: at oblatio Christi in cruce est commune humano generi indultum beneficium, cujus virtute quilibet, modo id vera fide amplectatur, potest vitam aeternam juxta revelatam in Evangelio Dei voluntatem sibi vendicare. Sic loquitur ipse Christus Johann. iii. 14, 15. Sicut Moses extulit serpentem in deserto, ita extolli oportet Filium hominis ut quisquis credat in eum non pereat, sed habeat vitam aeternam. Quamvis igitur praedestinatio Dei et, quae ex illa dependet, efficax vocatio, neminem non-electum complectitur, tamen sicut oblatio Christi in Evangelio, ita et oblatio Christi in cruce, latius patet, et cuilibet homini tam applicabilis quam annunciabilis est, et fiet salutifera cuilibet modo credat; Deo interim relicta arcana sua voluntate, juxta quam statuit misericorditer in quibusdam efficere ut credant, alios innatae suae duritiei permittere, atque in illis haud efficere ut credant. Tandem et illud addo, fuisse in ipso Christo voluntatem juxta quam voluit mortem suam ad omnes et singulos spectare, fuisse etiam juxta quam ad solos electos voluit eandem pertinere. Voluit illam spectare ad omnes Adami posteros servandos, atque de facto omnes servare, modo eam vera fide amplecterentur: voluit illam ad solos electos ita pertinere ut ex merito ejus omnia quae ad consequendam salutem spectant infallibiliter iisdem donarentur. Atque hoc sensu fatemur oblationem Christi aeque late patere atque praedestinationem Dei: De qua plura suo loco.
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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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