Cap. VIII Resp. Secundo: hardness is consequent event, not properly an effect of reprobation; Cajetan

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Second: adversaries seem to make that hardness or hardening — the reprobate's evil disposition or perverse act — an effect of divine reprobation. Most false. It may be a consequent event; it is not properly an effect of reprobation. As Cajetan well noted (on Aquinas I, q. 23 a. 5): whatever ordains the predestined to eternal life is an effect of predestination; yet in reprobation there is something that ordains to death — whatever has the character of fault or sin, such as that hardening and hardness — and that lies outside the whole effect of reprobation. Some theologians perilously err here: the means and causes of damnation are not tied to the reprobation decree as the means and causes of salvation are tied to the predestination decree. The difference is plain. Salvation's means are spiritual goods, and good falls under God's providence as intended, caused, and ordained by it. Damnation's means are spiritual evils; such evil falls under divine providence not as intended and caused, but as foresighted, permitted, ordained (so Dionysius the Carthusian on Sentences 1, dist. 40). When that hardness — man's vice or sin — is called an effect of reprobation, a mere consequent is labeled effect only improperly.

Latin

Secundo, videntur adversarii statuere in hoc argumento illam duritiem sive obdurationem, quae est mala dispositio aut perversa actio reprobati, esse effectum reprobationis Divinae. At hoc falsissimum est. Nam licet sit eventus consequens, non est tamen proprie dictum effectum reprobationis. Quamvis enim, ut bene notavit Cajetanus, quicquid ordinat praedestinatum ad vitam aeternam sit effectum praedestinationis, tamen in reprobatione est aliquid quod ordinat ad mortem (nimirum quicquid habet culpae aut peccati rationem, quale est praedicta obduratio et durities) quod est extra totum reprobationis effectum, In Aqu. 1. qu. 23. art. 5. Non enim (in quo nonnulli Theologi periculose errant) media et causae damnationis ita connexa sunt cum decreto reprobationis, sicuti media et causae salutis connectuntur cum decreto praedestinationis. Atque ratio discriminis in promptu est: Nam media et causae salutis sunt bona quaedam spiritualia; bonum autem subjacet providentiae Dei, ut intentum, causatum et ordinatum ab ea: sed media et causae quae ducunt ad damnationem sunt mala spiritualia; Malum autem hujusmodi subjacet Divinae providentiae, non ut intentum et causatum, sed ut praevisum, permissum, ordinatum. Sic Dionysius Carthusianus in 1. dist. 40. Quando ergo illa durities aut obduratio, quae est hominis vitium vel peccatum, supponitur effectus reprobationis, quod est merum consequens, effectus titulo improprie saltem, et non alio, insignitur.

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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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