Cap. VII: opposite rock — defending goodness so special mercy in election is crushed

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Opposite rock: some carefully dodge the first, then hit another no less deadly. Explaining the reprobation decree, they so defend God's goodness that in the opposite election decree they crush special mercy flowing from gratuitous good pleasure. As if Rom. 9:18 — I will have mercy on whom I will — meant I will have mercy on him I know just, whose ready faith I see, whom I see obey my precepts (so Faustus the Semi-Pelagian exposits, or rather corrupts, On Free Choice 1.3). What the poet sang of Jupiter — King Jupiter the same to all — they affirm of the true God: he wills eternal life equally to all; with sufficient means administered, he elects to glory those he foresees will use them well, and passes by those he foresees will abuse them. So electing shows no special mercy, reprobating no liberty of divine will, and in why this one is elect and that passed by no height remains — the split is recalled to human wills' liberty. Spalato rightly grants that holders of predestination and reprobation from foresight must put grace's efficacy in man's will, and admit means to salvation as prepared by God for all, yet not as predestined to any (Ecclesiastical Republic 7.11.198).

Latin

Jam vero ex adverso nonnulli sunt qui praedictum scopulum satis solicite vitant, sed interim in alium haud minus perniciosum incurrunt. Hi in decreto Reprobationis explicando bonitatem Dei ita defendunt, ut in opposito Electionis decreto specialem et ex gratuito beneplacito dimanantem misericordiam plane obruant. Quali illud Paulinum, Rom. ix. 18. Miserebor cui voluero, ac si sonaret, Miserebor ejus quem justum esse cognovero, cujus promptam fidem videro, quem praeceptis meis obedire perspexero, uti haec verba exposuit, vel potius corrupit Faustus Semipelagianus, De libero arbitrio lib. 1. cap. 3. Quod itaque de Iove suo cecinit poeta, Rex Jupiter omnibus idem, id illi de vero Deo affirmant, Illum scilicet ex aequo omnibus vitam aeternam velle, administratis autem mediis ad eam rem sufficientibus, quosdam ad gloriam eligere, dum praevidet eos hisce mediis recte usuros; alios praeterire, quia praevidet iisdem male usuros. Unde nulla in eligendo specialis Dei misericordia ostenditur, nec in reprobando Divinae voluntatis libertas ostenditur; nec denique in comparata illa consideratione, cur hic electus, iste praeteritus, ulla altitudo invenitur; sed eorum discrimen electorum et non-electorum ad libertatem humanarum voluntatum revocatur. Recte hoc fatetur Spalatensis, eos qui praedestinationem et reprobationem ex praescientia tenent debere efficaciam gratiae ponere in voluntate hominis, et media ad salutem humanam necessaria tanquam a Deo praeparata omnibus admittere, non tamen ut praedestinata ulli; De Republ. Eccl. lib. 7. cap. 11. num. 198.

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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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