Cap. VI Arg. 8 close: Vasquez split grace/glory fails — will to give the kingdom causes perseverance

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From this gift specially prepared and given to some, we gather eternal life was already destined for them. Vasquez the Jesuit, pressed by this absolute gratuitous predestination of certain persons to faith and perseverance, answers: yes, predestination to grace does not hang on foresighted merits — but election to glory does, and that is the standing view of Scripture and Augustine. In vain he tries to split what Scripture and Augustine join most closely. Scripture knows no election to efficacious grace except what is tied to the will to give glory — which will, in our way of considering, is prior to the will to give efficacious grace, and its cause and rule. Hence we are predestined unto adoption as sons (Eph. 1:5) — destination of glory and the heavenly inheritance, not grace alone. So Christ to the predestined (Luke 12:32): Fear not, little flock, for it pleased your Father to give you the kingdom — the will to give the kingdom as the peculiar cause of the providence that keeps the elect and makes them persevere through dangers. The will to give glory (election to life) is why they persevere before others — not foresighted perseverance why they were elected before others.

Latin

Ab hoc dono, quibusdam specialiter praeparato et donato, nos colligimus, vitam aeternam fuisse iisdem antecedenter destinatam. Vasques Jesuita convictus de absoluta hac et gratuita certarum personarum ad fidem et perseverantiam praedestinatione, respondet, esse verissimum, praedestinationem ad habendam gratiam non dependere ex praevisis meritis aut actionibus nostris; sed electionem ad habendam gloriam ex illis dependere, atque hanc esse perpetuam Scripturarum et Augustini sententiam. Sed frustra conatur Jesuita divellere, quae Scriptura et Augustinus optimus hac in re Scripturarum interpres, docuit esse conjunctissima. Scriptura enim non agnoscit aliam electionem aut praedestinationem ad gratiam efficacem, quam quae connexa est cum ea voluntate dandi gloriam; quae voluntas, secundum nostrum considerandi modum, prior est voluntate dandi gratiam efficacem, et causa ac regula ejusdem. Hinc praedestinati dicimur in adoptionem filiorum, Ephes. i. 5. quae non modo gratiae, sed gloriae sive haereditatis caelestis destinationem perspicue denotat. Sic Christus loquens de praedestinatis, Luc. xii. 32. Nolite, inquit, timere, pusille grex, quia complacuit Patri vestro dare vobis regnum. Ubi voluntas dandi regnum affertur tanquam causa peculiaris ejus providentiae quam Deus exercet erga electos, ut eos custodiat, et non obstantibus periculis et tentationibus perseverare faciat. Voluntas ergo dandi gloriam, sive electio ad vitam, est ratio cur prae aliis perseverent; non praevisa perseverantia, ratio cur prae aliis electi fuerint.

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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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