Cap. 5 Mem. 2 Scripture elect Resp close: Accepted-in-the-Beloved and Eph 2 show justification begins at faith

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Nor does the clause “he had us accepted in his beloved Son” block this (Ephesians 1:6). The Greek verb ἐχαρίτωσεν seems to point to the present state of the elect already regenerated, more than to God’s eternal purpose. So Beza renders it, “he freely makes them gracious to himself”—that is, he has now freely justified believers and admitted them into the state of actual reconciliation. If someone reads that acceptance as God’s eternal love embracing the elect not yet born, then the acceptance names the purpose of communicating his goodness, not the act of communication itself—as was already answered from Aquinas above. Beza also notes rightly in his comments on verse 5 that the elect obtain wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption freely through faith in their own time. They were not, then, justified, sanctified, or reconciled from eternity, though they were elect and predestined from eternity (Ephesians 1:5). No one taught this more clearly than the Apostle himself. The very people he called elect before the world’s foundations were laid he also shows were by nature children of wrath (Ephesians 2:3), and long remained without Christ, aliens from Israel’s commonwealth, strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope, and without God in the world. Then, in Christ Jesus, those who were once far off were made near when, through Christ’s blood grasped by faith, they were reconciled to God (Ephesians 2:12–13 and following). If we trust Paul, then—however eternal human election and predestination are from God’s eternal love—their justification and reconciliation are not to be called a mere manifestation or unveiling when they believe in Christ. That is when they first come to be and are constituted.

Latin

Neque obstat illud, Acceptos nos habuit in dilecto suo Filio: Nam Graecum verbum ἐχαρίτωσεν potius ad praesentem statum electorum jam regeneratorum quam ad aeternum Dei propositum referri videtur. Unde Beza vertit, gratis efficit sibi gratos, nempe gratis nunc justificavit & in statum actualis reconciliationis admisit ipsos credentes; Quod si quis illam acceptationem de aeterno Dei amore interpretetur, quo electos nondum natos complectitur, acceptatio illa propositum communicandi bonitatem suam, non ipsum actum communicationis denotabit, ut ex Aquinate supra responsum est. Beza etiam in Commentariis suis ad vers. 5. recte observavit Electos suo tempore sapientiam, justitiam, sanctificationem, redemptionem gratis per fidem adipisci: non igitur ab aeterno justificati sanctificati aut reconciliati, quamvis electi & praedestinati ab aeterno. Sed nemo clarius hoc docuit quam ipse Apostolus, qui eos ipsos, quos dixit electos ante jacta mundi fundamenta, tamen natura fuisse filios irae demonstrat, Ephes. ii. 3. & ac diu mansisse absque Christo, alienos a Republica Israelis, & extraneos a pactis promissionis, spem non habentes, Deo expertes in mundo: Tunc vero in Christo Jesu qui olim erant procul propinquos factos fuisse, cum per sanguinem Christi fide apprehensi Deo reconciliati essent, vers. 12, 13, &c. Si igitur Paulo fidem adhibemus, utcunque electio & praedestinatio hominum sit ab aeterno Dei amore aeterna, tamen justificatio & reconciliatio eorundem non manifestari aut revelari dicenda est quando credunt in Christum, sed tum primum fieri & constitui.

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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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