Cap. VIII Arg. 6: Fathers and Augustine — reprobates must acknowledge justice for their sins

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Sixth: the reprobate are warned always to acknowledge in their reprobation the divine justice by which, for their own sins, they were deservedly reprobated. Therefore, say adversaries, they are reprobated from foresight of the demerits in which they are foresighted as finishing this life. Many Father-testimonies are brought, especially Augustine: On the Good of Perseverance 6 — By his own will each deserts God, that he may deservedly be deserted by God. On Grace and Free Will 21 — When you read in Scripture that men's hearts are hardened, do not doubt their evil deserts went before, that they might justly suffer it. Again, chapter 23 — When you hear the Lord say He has mercy on whom he will and whom he will he hardens, in him whom God permits to be hardened believe his evil deserts; in him on whom God has mercy, acknowledge without doubt the grace that returns goods for evils. Most openly in Epistle 105: We seek the merit of hardening, and we find it. By desert of sin the universal mass is damned; those to whom God does not impart mercy merit that it not be imparted. From many such passages in Augustine and other Fathers, adversaries conclude that foresighted demerits with final lasting in them were the moving cause of divine reprobation.

Latin

Reprobi monentur, ut in sua reprobatione semper justitiam Divinam agnoscant, qua propter ipsorum peccata merito reprobati fuerunt: Ergo reprobantur ex praevisione demeritorum suorum, in quibus praevidentur hanc suam vitam finitori. Horsum afferuntur multa testimonia ex Patribus, atque nominatim ex ipso Augustino: Quale est illud, De bono persever. cap. 6. Voluntate sua quisque deserit Deum, ut merito deseratur a Deo. Item et illud, De gratia et libero arbitr. cap. 21. Cum legitis in sacris literis obdurari corda hominum, nolite dubitare praecessisse mala merita eorum, ut juste ista paterentur. Et rursus, Ibid. cap. 23. Quando auditis dicentem Dominum, Cujus vult miseretur et quem vult indurat, in eo quem permittit indurari mala ejus merita credite, in eo vero cujus miseretur, Gratiam Dei reddentis bona pro malis indubitanter agnoscite. Denique apertissime hoc asseritur Epistola 105, Quaerimus meritum obdurationis, et invenimus. Merito namque peccati universa massa damnata est, Quibus Deus misericordiam non impertitur, ut non impertatur merentur. Consimilia multa passim occurrunt apud Augustinum et alios Patres, ex quibus concludunt adversarii, Praevisa demerita, cum finali perduratione in iisdem, fuisse causam motivam reprobationis Divinae.

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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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