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Two Dissertations · §719

Cap. X Arg. IV: Vasquez's word-refuge — reprobation-as-destination-to-punishment may be in each one's power; we mean denied preparation of sustaining/raising grace (angels and men), which Vasquez himself says is not in our power

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So Vasquez (In 1. quaest. 23. disp. 95. cap. 9) seeks a refuge in the word reprobation, and answers that it is in each one's power to be reprobated or not — if the talk is of reprobation that begins from destination to punishment. But we (as we have often warned) do not mean by reprobation the destination of some singular person to punishment, or his pre-damnation. We mean the denied preparation of such grace as would have efficaciously sustained a standing creature and led it to glory — as in the non-elect angels — or would have efficaciously raised a fallen creature and led it to everlasting life — as in non-elect or reprobate men. And on this point we have the Jesuit himself confessing (though elsewhere he opposes us). His words: Since to be Predestined is that grace which God knew would have effect in us be prepared for us, and not to be predestined is that that grace not be prepared for us, and neither is in our power, it follows that to be predestined or not is not in our power. For that reason we have said it is not in our power to be reprobated, if reprobation is taken for negation of grace (Ibid. pag. 709).

Latin

Vasques igitur, In 1. quaest. 23. disp. 95. cap. 9. in vocabulo reprobationis latebram quaerit, atque respondet, Esse in potestate cujusque reprobari aut non reprobari, si sermo sit de reprobatione quae incipit a destinatione ad poenam. Sed nos (uti saepe praemonuimus) per reprobationem non intelligimus destinationem singularis alicujus personae ad poenam, vel praedamnationem ejusdem, sed negatam praeparationem talis gratiae, quae stantem creaturam efficaciter sustentasset, et ad gloriam perduxisset, ut cernitur in causa Angelorum non-electorum; vel quae lapsam creaturam efficaciter erexisset, et ad vitam aeternam perduxisset, ut in causa hominum non-electorum sive reprobatorum cernitur. Atque hac in re habemus confitentem (qui in aliis nobis adversatur) ipsum Jesuitam, cujus verba apponam: Quum Praedestinari sit gratiam illam, quam Deus novit in nobis effectum habituram, nobis praeparari; et non-praedestinari sit gratiam illam nobis non praeparari, et neutrum horum sit in nostra potestate, efficitur ut praedestinari aut non praedestinari non sit in nostra potestate. Quare hac de causa diximus, non esse in nostra potestate reprobari, si reprobatio pro gratiae negatione sumatur. Haec ille. Ibid. pag. 709.

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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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