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Cap. IV Arg. 9 Sol: second and third decrees — singular persons and efficacious means; Major false twice

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Second: another kind of decrees by which from eternity singular persons are designated in God's mind and will to be led infallibly to salvation. The individuals are not named in Scripture's book, yet they are written in the book of life (Phil. 4:3; Luke 10:20). Of these: God knows his own (2 Tim. 2:19); he calls his sheep by name (John 10:3); I know whom I have chosen (John 13:18). Third: always bound to that person-decree is a decree to gift those singular persons every means of efficacious grace by which they are led to salvation. So Rom. 8:30 — whom he predestinated he called, whom he called he justified — and Eph. 1:3–4. Election before the ages is as it were the measure of all spiritual blessings given in time (faith, holiness, perseverance); not the reverse, as Remonstrants will, foresight faith and perseverance measuring election. These decrees too have Christ for foundation: in him they are elected as members to be united in time to Christ their Head, and through and for him they are imbued with special grace. So the Major is false twice: it makes Christ foundation only of I will save all believers, when he is also foundation of I will give eternal life to Peter, Paul, and each elect — faith, perseverance, grace leading effectively to salvation. And it locates election formally in that universal decree, whereas election puts itself forth in the second decree electing singular persons to life and the third destinating them to efficacious means before others — per the theologians' definition: predestination is preparation of grace now and glory hereafter.

Latin

Secundo, est aliud genus decretorum quo in mente et voluntate Divina ab aeterno designantur singulares personae ad salutem infallibiliter perducendae. Non nominantur quidem ipsa individua in libro Scripturae; sed inscribuntur tamen ipsa individua in libro vitae, Phil. iv. 3. Luc. x. 20. De hisce intelliguntur illa Scripturarum loca, Deus novit suos, 2 Tim. ii. 19. Ille vocat oves suas nominatim, Joan. x. 3. Ego novi quos elegerim, Joan. xiii. 18. Tertio, est cum praedicto de personis decreto colligatum semper et connexum decretum donandi singularibus illis personis omnia gratiae efficacis media, per quae ad salutem perducantur. Huc spectat illud Apostoli, Rom. viii. 30. Quos praedestinavit, vocavit; et quos vocavit, justificavit, &c. Et Ephes. i. 3–4. Benedixit nobis Deus omni benedictione spirituali, sicut elegit nos antequam jacerentur mundi fundamenta. Electio ante tempora saecularia est quasi mensura omnium spiritualium benedictionum (puta fidei, sanctitatis, perseverantiae) quae dantur in tempore; non vice versa (ut volunt Remonstrantes) praevisa fides et perseverantia, mensura electionis. Haec etiam decreta, juxta quae personae singulares ad vitam praedestinantur, et iisdem gratia salutifera praeparatur, habent Christum pro fundamento. In eo enim eliguntur tanquam membra Christo Capiti suo tempore unienda; ac per et propter eum gratia speciali hae singulares personae imbuuntur. Major itaque propositio duobus nominibus falsa est et rejicienda. Primo, quod supponit Christum solummodo fundamentum esse decreti illius universalis, Omnes credentes salvabo; cum etiam fundamentum sit hujus singularis decreti, Ego Petro, Paulo, et sic de singulis electis, vitam aeternam dabo: Ego illis singulis fidem, perseverantiam, uno verbo, gratiam ad salutem efficaciter perducentem, dabo. Secundo, falsa est Major, quod electionem in illo universali decreto formaliter constitutam supponit, cum ea se exserat in secundo decreto quo personae singulares ad vitam eliguntur, et in tertio, quo ad media efficacia prae aliis participanda destinantur, juxta celebrem apud Theologos praedestinationis definitionem, praedestinatio est praeparatio gratiae in praesenti, et gloriae in futuro.

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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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