Cap. X: non-election / negative reprobation defined — not pre-damnation from foreseen final unbelief, but denial from mere will of the special mercy that softens and leads to life (Bradwardine; Rom. ix. 16, 18)

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So we put it this way. Non-election — preterition, negative reprobation — is not pre-damnation of singular persons from foreseen final unbelief and impenitence. (We do acknowledge a decree of that kind.) What it is, from God's mere will, is denial of that special mercy which softens away unbelief and impenitence, and which leads to everlasting life by fixing and keeping a person in faith and holiness. Bradwardine, our profound Doctor, says it shorter: Predestination is the eternal preparation by divine will of final grace in the way, and of eternal beatitude in the fatherland, for certain rational creatures (lib. 1. cap. 45. pag. 421). Reprobation is God's eternal nilling to confer such things in certain persons (Ibid. pag. 426). With the Apostle we hold that this election is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy (Rom. ix. 16). And this non-election — this reprobation or eternal nilling — did not spring from men's foreseen unbelief or impenitence. It sprang from his mere liberty: who has mercy on whom he wills, and whom he wills he hardens (Rom. ix. 18). Augustine's reading is as if the Apostle had said: on whom he wills he has mercy, and on whom he wills not he has not mercy (De praedest. et grat. cap. 6).

Latin

Ita dicimus, Non-electionem, praeteritionem sive reprobationem negativam haud esse singularium personarum ex praevisa finali earundem infidelitate et impoenitentia praedamnationem, (quamvis tale decretum agnoscamus) sed ex mera Dei voluntate denegationem ejus specialis misericordiae, quae infidelitatem et impoenitentiam tollit emolliendo, et ad vitam aeternam perducit in fide et sanctitate stabiliendo et conservando. Vel brevius ex Bradwardino nostro, qui profundi Doctoris cognomentum sibi meruit, Praedestinatio est aeterna praeparatio a voluntate Divina gratiae finalis in via, et beatitudinis aeternae in patria, creaturis quibusdam rationalibus, lib. 1. cap. 45. pag. 421. Et reprobatio est aeterna Dei nolitio conferendi talia in quibusdam personis, Ibid. pag. 426. Cum Apostolo defendimus hanc electionem non esse volentis, neque currentis, sed miserentis Dei, Rom. ix. 16. et hanc non-electionem, reprobationem sive nolitionem aeternam non esse ortam ex praevisa infidelitate, aut impoenitentia hominum, sed ex mera ejus libertate, qui cujus vult miseretur, et quem vult indurat, Rom. ix. 18. Quod, interprete Augustino, perinde est ac si dixisset Apostolus, cujus vult miseretur, et cujus non vult non miseretur, De praedest. et grat. cap. 6.

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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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