Cap. IX Resp.: Major false for pagan infants — Augustine Enchiridion 99; Vasquez on infants

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I answer: as to pagan infants — neither in the covenant nor regenerated in Christ — the Major of their syllogism is openly false. If to condemn for original sin alone is to deal by strict right, then with such God does deal by strict right. So Augustine from the catholic Church's sentence (Enchiridion 99): the whole human race is by so just a divine judgment damned in the apostate root that even if none were freed from it, no one could rightly blame God's justice; and those freed ought so to be freed that from the many not freed, left in most just damnation, it would be shown what the whole fellowship had merited — and whither even they would be led by God's due judgment unless his unowed mercy helped. Even Vasquez the Jesuit, who sharply defends predestination from foresighted merits, must confess: if we mean reprobation as rejection from God's grace, reprobate infants had no cause of their reprobation at all; if rejection from beatitude, those infants for whom providence so disposes that no human remedy can be applied were by God's decree shut from the kingdom of heaven right after foresight of original sin they contracted (on ST I, q. 23 a. 3, disp. 89 c. 6). So Arminians push their error farther than the Jesuits themselves.

Latin

Respondeo, Majorem propositi syllogismi quoad infantes Paganorum, qui nec in foedere censentur, nec in Christo regenerantur, aperte falsam esse. Nam si condemnare aliquem ob solum peccatum originale sit stricto jure agere, pertinet est cum talibus agi stricto jure. Atque hinc Augustinus ex catholicae Ecclesiae sententia aperte pronunciat, Universum genus humanum tam justo judicio Divino in apostatica radice esse damnatum, ut etiamsi nullus inde liberaretur, nemo possit recte Dei vituperare justitiam: et qui liberantur sic oportere liberari, ut ex pluribus non liberatis, et in damnatione justissima derelictis, ostenderetur quid meruisset universa consortio: et quo etiam ipsos debitum judicium Dei duceret nisi ejus indebita misericordia subveniret, Enchirid. cap. 99. Quin etiam Vasques Jesuita, qui praedestinationem ex praevisis meritis acriter propugnat, cogitur tamen fateri: Si de reprobatione loquamur qua quis rejicitur a gratia Dei, in parvulis reprobis nullam omnino fuisse suae reprobationis causam; Si de reprobatione, qua quis a beatitudine rejicitur, sermo sit, parvulos eos quibus Divina providentia ita disponit, ut nullum remedium humanae industriae possit adhiberi, fuisse Dei decreto exclusos a regno caelorum, statim post praevisionem originalis peccati ab ipsis contracti, In 1. qu. 23. art. 3. disp. 89. cap. 6. Arminiani igitur longius progrediuntur in defensione erroris sui quam ipsi Jesuitae.

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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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