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Two Dissertations · §54

Cap. 5 Mem. 2 Fathers: Augustine — redemption profits only when it is drunk

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Augustine will follow Ambrose. He writes thus in the reply to the article falsely imposed on him, reply 1: Those who pass through this age without the faith of Christ, and without the sacrament of regeneration, are aliens to redemption. A little later: The property of redemption is with those from whom the prince of this world has been cast out. At length he adds: The passion or death of Christ has in itself that it profits all; but if it is not drunk, it does not profit.

All of which utter that Ambrosian sentence — If you do not believe, he did not suffer for you — in still other words. For that phrase, they are aliens to redemption, hints at nothing else than that those who have not yet believed are by no means sharers of the remission of sins and of reconciliation with God.

So also the property of redemption denotes the acquired and as-it-were possessed fruit of redemption, and declares that same fruit to be with believers and the regenerate alone. Finally those words of Augustine — if it is not drunk, it does not profit — plainly prove that the usefulness overflowing from Christ’s death is derived to singular persons only by drinking, that is, by believing.

These things, all and each, overturn the sentence of those who state that either all human beings promiscuously, or the predestinate by a special quasi-privilege, by this alone — that Christ suffered on the cross for them — are restored into the state of grace and of actual reconciliation with God.

Latin

Ambrosium subsequetur Augustinus, qui sic scribit, in resp. ad artic. sibi falso imposit. resp. 1. Qui hoc saeculum sine fide Christi, & sine regenerationis sacramento pertranseunt, redemtionis alieni sunt. Paulo post, Redemtionis proprietas penes illos est, de quibus princeps hujus mundi missus est foras. Tandem addit, Passio sive mors Christi habet in se ut omnibus prosit; sed si non bibitur, non proficit. Quae omnia Ambrosianam illam sententiam, Si non credis, tibi passus non est, aliis atque aliis verbis enunciant. Nam illud, redemtionis alieni sunt, nil aliud innuit, quam minime participes esse remissionis peccatorum, & reconciliationis cum Deo, qui nondum crediderunt. Sic etiam redemtionis proprietas acquisitum & quasi possessum fructum redemtionis denotat, eundemque penes solos credentes & regeneratos esse declarat. Denique illa Augustini verba, si non bibitur, non proficit, plane evincunt, utilitatem ex morte Christi redundantem non nisi bibendo, id est, credendo, ad singulares personas derivari. Haec omnia & singula evertunt illorum sententiam qui statuunt, sive omnes homines promiscue, sive praedestinatos speciali quasi privilegio, hoc ipso solo quod Christus in cruce passus est pro illis, in statum gratiae, & actualis reconciliationis apud Deum restitui.

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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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