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Two Dissertations · §733

Cap. X Arg. V close / Arg. VI open (Quinto): decree not to give faith is not productive cause of unbelief; Bradwardine — principate over futures and non-futures

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But lest anyone twist what was said—that not giving to Christ, or not electing, is prior on God’s reprobating side to absolute foresight of not-believing or not-persevering on the reprobate’s side—I warn: this does not mean God or his decree is the productive cause of human unbelief, apostasy, or stubbornness (those spring from inbred corruption). It means that since faith and perseverance are gifts of the merciful God, which he could give to all, by the very act of reprobating he decrees not to work in some what he will work in others and could have worked in all. For as Augustine truly says (De correptione et gratia 24), no human will resists God when he wills to save. So that very resisting—or persevering in unbelief—foreseen in all the reprobate plainly proves that he who holds most omnipotent power to incline human hearts wherever he pleases did not have this efficacious will to save these; which is nothing other than not electing them, or reprobating them. Fifth, the argument is from that principate due to God not only over future things but also over non-future things. For as Bradwardine rightly holds (lib. 3, c. 33), God holds principate not only over beings but also over non-beings.

Latin

Sed ne quis inde errandi occasionem arripiat quod dictum est, non-dare Christo vel non-eligere esse prius considerandum ex parte Dei reprobantis, quam non-credere aut non-perseverare absolute praevideatur ex parte personae reprobatae; id moneo non esse ita intelligendum, quasi Deus, aut Dei decretum, causa productiva esset infidelitatis, apostasiae, aut pertinaciae humanae, (haec enim omnia nascuntur ex insita hominum corruptione) sed quia cum fides et perseverantia sint dona Dei miserentis, quae omnibus posset impertire, ipso actu reprobandi decernat apud se non efficere in aliquibus, quod in aliis effecturus est, quodque in omnibus efficere potuisset. Nam (ut vere Augustinus, De corr. et grat. cap. 24.) Deo volenti salvum facere nullum hominum resistit arbitrium. Ipsum itaque resistere, sive in infidelitate perseverare, quod praevidetur in omnibus reprobates, aperte evincit illum qui habet humanorum cordium quocunque placuerit inclinandorum omnipotentissimam potestatem, ut inquit Augustinus ibidem, non habuisse hanc efficacem hosce salvandi voluntatem: quod nil aliud est quam eos non-elegisse sive reprobasse. Quinto arguitur ab illo principatu qui Deo tribuendus est, non modo circa res futuras, sed etiam circa res non futuras. Nam (ut recte statuit Bradwardinus, lib. 3. c. 33.) Deus non solum super entia, sed etiam super non-entia tenet principatum.

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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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