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Two Dissertations · §379

Cap. IV Arg. 5 Sol cont: benevolence toward elect still in sin — Orange 25; Scotus; two acceptations

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Further: their claim that God makes or holds none pleasing in Christ except the faithful cannot stand. Whence comes God's efficacious purpose to inspire saving faith and repentance into human hearts? That purpose still regards unbelievers and the impenitent — so they must grant a singular, special love of God there. So great is his love for his only-begotten Son that, looking to him in eternal benevolence, he embraces all he elected in him even while considered in sin and unbelief — and by special grace always works to draw them out of that state. So Orange can. 25: Displeasing we were loved, that there might be made in us whence we might please. Add: Christ is a head of infinite power, his merit of such efficacy that it can influence members not yet united but only destined, and by that influence unite them. Scotus (3 dist. 19) well noted: Christ merited that the not-yet-joined be joined — and therein his merit chiefly consists. If his merit reaches non-believers and joins them, a conforming divine acceptance extends to them too. Briefly: one may be acceptable to God in Christ, or for Christ's sake, two ways. One: present friendship-love, admitted as a household member to the throne of grace — in that sense only the faithful are pleasing in Christ. Two: eternal benevolence as a predestinated member of his Son — though paternal effects are not yet poured out, he intends in Christ and for Christ to pour them at the fit time. In that sense God has made many not yet believing or converted pleasing in Christ — not as already placed in him, but as to be placed by special favor, because elected in Christ from eternity.

Latin

Porro, quod dicunt, Deum neminem in Christo gratum facere aut habere nisi fidelem, id nullo modo potest consistere. Quaero enim, Unde nascitur efficax propositum in Deo, inspirandi fidem salutiferam et poenitentiam cordibus humanis? In hoc ipso proposito quod spectat adhuc infideles et impoenitentes, singularem ac specialem quendam Dei amorem agnoscant est necesse. Tantus enim est Dei amor erga Filium suum unigenitum, ut ejus intuitu amore aeternae benevolentiae complectatur eos omnes, quos in illo elegit, etiam in statu peccati et infidelitatis consideratos; et propterea speciali quadam gratia curat semper eos ex hoc statu eruendos. Praeclare in hanc sententiam Concilium Arausicanum, Displicentes amati sumus, ut fieret in nobis unde placeremus, can. 25. Hisce adde, Christum esse caput tam infinitae potentiae, ejusque meritum tantae efficaciae, ut influere possit in membra nondum unita, sed solummodo destinata, et suo influxu efficere ut talia uniantur. Hoc illud est quod Scotus bene observavit, lib. 3. dist. 19. Christus meruit ut non conjuncta sibi conjungerentur: et in hoc potissimum consistit meritum ejus. Si Christi meritum ad non-conjunctos, hoc est, non-credentes, pertingit, efficitque ut conjungantur, tum etiam et conformis quaedam Dei acceptatio sive gratificatio ad eosdem extenditur. Brevius itaque respondeo, Hominem aliquem dici posse Deo acceptum in Christo, vel propter Christum, dupliciter. Uno modo, quando illum complectitur amore quasi praesentis amicitiae, illumque ut domesticum ad thronum gratiae admittit, atque sensu favoris sui beat. Hoc sensu soli fideles sunt in Christo Deo grati. Alio modo intelligi potest aliquis esse prae aliis Deo gratus et acceptus, nimirum, quando illum complectitur amore aeternae benevolentiae, ut praedestinatum Filii sui membrum. Licet enim adhuc paterni amoris effecta ad talem non defundantur, intendit tamen in Christo et propter Christum idoneo tempore diffundere. Et hoc sensu Deus multos etiam nondum credentes et conversos gratos sibi fecit in Christo, non tanquam jam positos in Christo, sed tanquam ex speciali favore ponendos, quia ab aeterno in Christo electos.

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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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