Cap. VIII Arg. 1 Resp.: simple complacence vs predestinating will; non-election is not willing to destroy

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If adversaries mean that God, foresight of human demerits set aside, wills salvation equally to all, we deny the cited places prove that. They do prove that by the will of simple complacence God wills that all believe and repent, that none perish or be damned. They do not prove that by predestinating will he wills equally, before foresight of demerits, to work in all so they believe and repent, and not perish or be damned — nor that by reprobating will he has not decreed to deny some efficacious grace and infallible ordination to glory. Those two can stand together: God wills that all believe and none perish (simple complacence); and God wills to permit some to persist in voluntary unbelief and fall short of eternal salvation. Adversaries err in taking not-to-elect (or to reprobate) as equipollent with willing to destroy or inflict eternal death. Non-election or praeterition can fall on an intact creature — plain in the angels — but the will to destroy or afflict with eternal death can fall only on a vitiated creature: non-election is mere denial of a gratuitous benefit; death or perdition is sin's wage. True: all the non-elect will infallibly rush into eternal death, and from eternity God's positive will adjudges them to it — but that deputing to death is not conceived in the same sign of reason as non-election, but in a later one where final perseverance in sin is foresighted. That God wills none to perish without prior regard to demerits does not entail that he wills none to pass by or not-elect without that same prior regard.

Latin

Si id volunt adversarii, Deum seposita praevisione et consideratione antecedente demeritorum humanorum, velle ex aequo salutem universis hominibus, hoc nos negamus ex locis allegatis effici posse. Efficitur quidem, Deum voluntate simplicis complacentiae velle ut omnes credant, ut omnes resipiscant, ut nemo pereat, ut nemo damnetur; sed non efficitur, Deum voluntate praedestinante velle ex aequo, ante praevisionem demeritorum, in omnibus operari ut credant, ut resipiscant; operari ne pereant, ne damnentur: neque efficitur, Deum voluntate reprobante haud decrevisse negare quibusdam gratiam efficacem, et infallibilem ordinationem ad gloriam. Possunt enim haec duo simul consistere: Deus vult ut omnes credant, et nemo pereat, scilicet voluntate simplicis complacentiae; et, Deus vult permittere ut quidam in infidelitate sua voluntaria persistent, et ab aeterna salute deficiant. In eo igitur errant adversarii, quod sumunt haec duo, non-eligere sive reprobare, et velle perdere vel mortem aeternam inferre, pro aequipollentibus: cum non-electio vel praeteritio competere possit in creaturam integram, quod in angelis manifestum est; at voluntas perdendi vel morte aeterna afficiendi non potest cadere nisi in creaturam vitiatam: cum non-electio sit mera negatio gratuiti beneficii, Mors sive perditio sit stipendium commissi peccati. Est quidem verissimum, omnes non-electos infallibiliter ruituros in mortem aeternam: est etiam perspicuum, omnes non-electos ab aeterno positiva Dei voluntate huic morti adjudicatos: sed haec ad mortem deputatio non concipienda est ut in eodem signo rationis peracta, quo non-electio statuitur, sed in alio posteriore, quo non-electi perseverantia finalis in statu peccati praevidetur. Ex eo igitur quod Deus neminem vult perire absque antecedanea consideratione demeritorum, non sequitur, Deum neminem velle praeterire aut non-eligere absque antecedanea consideratione eorundem.

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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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