Cap. VI Arg. 13: Pelagius's grace vs Augustine's — Miserebor cuius misertus fuero

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Arminius's disciples deny it — but will they or nill they, once predestination from foresight of faith is fixed, they can admit no grace but what Pelagius at last admitted; they cannot own what Augustine everywhere presses him to confess. What grace did Pelagius grant? God works in us to will the good and the holy while he kindles us by future glory and promised rewards, raises the stunned will by wisdom's revelation into desire of God, and advises us of every good. Those are the very means by whose administration Arminius has God watching who will believe and who will not — electing those he foresees will use them well, passing by those he foresees will abuse them. Augustine: We do not want that grace. Let Pelagius confess the grace by which future glory is not only promised but believed and hoped; wisdom not only revealed but loved; every good not only advised but persuaded. That grace which pours in faith, hope, and charity, and makes us do — Catholics held it is not given from merit, not from prior good use of free choice, but from God's mere mercy. So at Diospolis Pelagius is ordered to confess grace is not given according to our merits — reason: that it may be true grace, freely given through the mercy of him who said, I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I WILL HAVE MERCY.

Latin

Scio Arminii discipulos hoc negare: sed velint nolint, stabilita hac praedestinatione hominum ex praevisione fidei, non possunt aliam gratiam admittere, quam eam quam tandem admisit ipse Pelagius; non possunt illam agnoscere, quam ubique ut fateatur, urget Augustinus. Sed qualem gratiam admisit Pelagius? Operatur Deus in nobis velle quod bonum est, velle quod sanctum est, dum nos terrenis cupiditatibus deditos futurae gloriae magnitudine et praemiorum pollicitatione succendit, dum revelatione sapientiae in desiderium Dei stupentem suscitat voluntatem, dum nobis suadet omne quod bonum est. Haec profecto sunt ea media quibus administratis Arminius fingit Deum speculari quinam credituri sunt, quinam non credituri, et sic eos ad vitam eligere, quos praevidet recte iis usuros, eos praeterire quos praevidet iisdem abusuros. Sed quid ad hoc Augustinus? Nos, inquit, eam gratiam nolumus. Istam fateatur Pelagius, qua futurae gloriae magnitudo non solum promittitur, verum etiam creditur et speratur; nec solum revelatur sapientia, verum etiam et amatur; nec suadetur solum omne quod bonum est, verum et persuadetur. Hanc autem gratiam quae fidem, spem et charitatem infundit, quae facit ut faciamus, ea est quam non ex merito dari contendebant Catholici, hoc est, non ex praeeunte bono usu liberi arbitrii, sed ex mera misericordia Dei. Sic in Concilio Diospolitano praecipitur Pelagio, ut fateatur gratiam Dei non dari secundum merita nostra: atque haec ratio subjungitur, Ut vera sit gratia, id est, gratis data per ejus misericordiam qui dixit, MISEREBOR CUIUS MISERTUS FUERO.

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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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