Cap. IX Resp.: reprobation decree is secret — reprobates not left without hope of pardon merely by being reprobated

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Further: the clause annexed to their Major — that such are left in that condemnation without any hope of pardon — is wrongly pinned on the reprobating decree. Like predestination, the reprobation decree is secret; as to which particulars, no mortal knows it a priori of himself or of another. As the predestined do not yet have hope of pardon from being predestined alone, so the reprobate are not left without hope of pardon from being reprobated alone. Paul the predestined could not conceive hope of pardon except through conversion and faith in Christ; Judas the reprobate is not left without hope of pardon except through his unbelief and impiety against Christ. Finally if Arminians argue from mere infallibility of the event and immutability of the decree that any reprobate is stripped of all hope of pardon, that inconvenience presses their view no less than ours. They grant Judas — and so every particular reprobate — was from eternity reprobated by God's fixed peremptory sentence; so that on their view it is as certain, infallible, and defined with God that Judas will never obtain pardon and eternal life as on ours. If, then, on that Arminian reprobation Judas is not left without all hope of pardon, neither will he be on the reprobation the orthodox defend.

Latin

Porro, assumptum illud, quod hisce verbis majori propositioni annectitur, ita ut sine ulla spe veniae in ista condemnatione relinquantur, perperam decreto Dei reprobantis tribuitur. Nam ut praedestinationis, ita et reprobationis decretum arcanum est, nec quantum ad distinctionem singularium ulli mortalium sive quoad seipsum sive quoad alium a priori notum. Sicuti ergo praedestinati, ex eo solum quod praedestinati, spem veniae nondum habent; ita nec reprobati, ex eo solum quod reprobati sunt, sine ulla spe veniae relinquuntur. Nam ut Paulus praedestinatus spem veniae concipere non potuit nisi mediante conversione et fide in Christum; ita nec Judas reprobatus sine spe veniae relinquitur, nisi mediante infidelitate sua et impietate contra Christum. Denique si propter solam eventus infallibilitatem et decreti Divini immutabilitatem Arminiani contendant, quemlibet reprobatum omni spe veniae destitutum, hoc incommodo non minus urgetur ipsorum sententia quam nostra. Nam illi agnoscunt Judam, adeoque singulares omnes homines reprobatos, fuisse ab aeterno fixa et peremptoria Dei sententia reprobatos; ita ut juxta illorum opinionem tam certum, infallibile et definitum fuerit apud Deum, quod Judas veniam et vitam aeternam nunquam consequetur, quam in nostra. Si ergo posita hac reprobatione Arminiana Judas absque omni spe veniae non relinquitur, neque posita illa quam orthodoxi defendunt relinquetur.

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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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