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Two Dissertations · §666

Cap. IX Arg. 12 Sol: 'God wills all to be saved' does not overturn reprobation — election is 'I will make him saved,' not merely 'I will him to be saved'; conditional will to save stands with absolute reprobation

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Further: they think the Apostolic saying 'God wills all to be saved' fights the reprobation decree we posit. They are much deceived. Without entering the long word-debate we already treated at this disputation's start — that saying does not deny or overturn the reprobation of many we place. Election does not sit in 'I will this one to be saved,' but in 'I will to make this one saved.' So non-election or reprobation does not sit in 'I will not this one to be saved,' but in 'I will not to make this one saved.' Admit Arminius's exposition: God wills all to be saved — namely, wills to save them under this condition, if they believe and persevere. That conditional will to save can stand with an absolute decree to reprobate. It does not denote a divine-will act terminated on saving some singular person, but a decree of the universal perpetual nexus of two things: faith and salvation. So we may rightly gather: if persevering faith were found in any singular person, God would also will to save that person. We may not rightly infer that in the decree preparing efficacious grace and infallibly ordaining to life, no one was antecedently passed over by God. In a word: as there is no fight between 'God predestined Paul to everlasting life' and 'God would damn Paul if he did not believe and persevere,' so neither between 'God did not predestine — or passed over and rejected — Judas' and 'God would save Judas if he believed and persevered.' To will to save under a condition neither proves election nor denies reprobation.

Latin

Porro, quod putant reprobationis decreto a nobis posito adversari illud Apostolicum, Deus vult omnes salvos fieri, multum falluntur opinione sua. Nam (ut minime ingrediar prolixam aliquam explicationem verborum, de quibus in initio hujus disputationis multa disseruimus) illud Apostoli, Deus vult omnes salvos fieri, non negat aut evertit illam quam ponimus multorum reprobationem. Sicuti enim electio minime sita est in hac affirmatione, Volo hunc salvum fieri, sed, Volo hunc salvum facere; ita non-electio sive reprobatio non sita est in hac negatione, Nolo hunc salvum fieri, sed, Nolo hunc salvum facere. Admittamus igitur Arminii expositionem, Deum velle omnes salvos fieri, nimirum, ita ut velit eosdem servare sub hac conditione, Si crediderint et perseveraverint; dico hanc voluntatem conditionalem servandi stare posse cum decreto absoluto reprobandi; quia non denotat actum voluntatis Divinae ad personam aliquam singularem servandam terminatum, sed decretum voluntatis Divinae de universali et perpetuo nexu duarum rerum, fidei scilicet et salutis. Unde recte colligamus, si fides perseverans in quacunque singulari persona reperiretur, esset quoque in Deo voluntas eandem personam servandi; sed non recte inferamus, in decreto efficacem gratiam praeparante, et ad vitam infallibiliter ordinante, neminem fuisse a Deo antecedenter praeteritum. Ut verbo expediamus nos ab hac objectione; Sicut nulla pugna est inter haec duo, Deus praedestinavit Paulum ad vitam aeternam, et, Deus damnaret Paulum si non crederet, si non perseveraret, ita nec inter haec duo, Deus non praedestinavit, vel Deus praeteriit et rejecit Judam, et Deus salvaret Judam si crederet et perseveraret. Nam sub conditione velle servare, nec arguit electionem, nec negat reprobationem.

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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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