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Cap. II Sol. Arg. 5: will to save tied to will to teach — God did not teach all

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This divine will for the salvation of all men must be read with the will joined to it — the will to teach all men. Paul binds them: God wills all to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4). Yet it is certain from God's word and from history that he has not willed to teach all, or to lead every person one by one to saving truth. Romans 10:14: how will they call on him in whom they have not believed? how believe without hearing? how hear without a preacher? how preach unless they are sent? In past generations God let the nations walk in their own ways (Acts 14:16) and gave knowledge of the truth to Israel alone. After Christ's coming the light did not at once shine on all by his will: for a time the apostles were barred from the Gentile road (Matthew 10:5), and later forbidden to preach in Asia (Acts 16:6). Come to our own age: how many nations found in the New World have for centuries not felt even a breath of saving truth? Can God be said to have willed them to know the truth when he would not send them heralds of it? See Prosper of Aquitaine on the Gallic chapters (Response 4 and Sentence 4). If they take Paul to mean that God, as far as in him lies, wills to give every fallen child of Adam saving knowledge and salvation itself for Christ's sake, you must either call their reading a clear error or confess weakness in the divine will — for the one who wills, and can, acts.

Latin

Voluntas haec Divina de salute omnium hominum, non aliter concipienda, quam illa quae conjungitur de eruditione omnium hominum. Connectuntur enim ab Apostolo; Deus vult omnes salvos fieri, & ad agnitionem veritatis venire. Est autem certissimum, tum ex verbo Dei, tum ex ipso eventu, Deum non habuisse aut habere voluntatem erudiendi omnes, sive perducendi omnes singulatim ad salutiferae veritatis cognitionem: Rom. x. 14. Quomodo invocabunt eum in quem non crediderint? quomodo autem credent ei de quo non audierint? quomodo audient absque praedicante? aut quomodo praedicabunt si non mittantur? At Deus praeteritis generationibus dimisit omnes gentes suis ipsarum viis incedere; Act. xiv. 16. Ac veritatis agnitionem soli nationi Judaeorum concessit. Post Christi adventum lux veritatis non statim omnibus ex voluntate Dei affulsit. Ad tempus prohibiti sunt Apostoli in viam gentium abire, Matth. x. 5. Aliquanto post vetiti sunt etiam ne praedicarent verbum in Asia, Actor. xvi. 6. Atque ut ad nostra secula descendamus, quot nationes in Novo orbe detectas habemus, ad quas salutiferae veritatis per multa secula ne tenuissima quidem aura pervenit? An dici potest Deus voluisse illos ad agnitionem veritatis venire, ad quos noluit praecones veritatis mittere? Videte Prosperum Aquitanicum, ad Capit. Gall. Respons. 4. & Sent. 4. Si itaque sic intelligunt verba Apostoli, ut sentiant Deum, quantum in se est, velle omnes & singulos mortales in Adamo lapsos propter Christum donare salutiferae veritatis cognitione & ipsa salute, aut in hac illorum sententia manifestum errorem, aut in Divina voluntate manifestam infirmitatem agnoscere est necesse; nam volens potens operatur.

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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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