Cap. X Ultimum Propos. 2 close: Milevis and Orange preach justifying/converting inspiration not given promiscuously to all — Synod of African exiles in Sardinia

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Turn to the councils: in them such a Grace of Christ is preached as experience itself cries is not given promiscuously to all. Milevis declares (can. 3–5) that the grace of God given through Jesus Christ is the grace of justification—and no one doubts that this (whatever is said of exciting and illuminating grace) is not common to all. Orange teaches the same (can. 5): the grace now in question is the Holy Spirit’s inspiration correcting our will from unbelief to faith, from impiety to piety. That such efficacious inspiration is given to some and not others is so plain that to deny it is folly, not mere ignorance. Best and most express is the Synodical Letter of the bishops exiled in Sardinia: He does not think worthily of grace who thinks it is given to all men. A little later they name the grace they mean—the one that works in a man both to will and to do—and add: This it works in his own, that they may work their salvation. Who are those God owns? Presently: All the predestined themselves are those God wills to be saved. So some never had this grace efficacious to salvation given or destined to them.

Latin

Verum ad Concilia transeamus, de quibus illud generatim affirmare licet, Gratiam Christi talem in illis praedicari, qualem omnibus non dari promiscue clamat ipsa experientia. Milevitanum, Gratiam Dei per Jesum Christum nobis donatam, gratiam justificationis esse, declarat, can. 3, 4, et 5. Hanc autem (quicquid de excitante et illuminante gratia statuatur) non esse omnium communem nemo dubitat. Eadem est sententia Arausicani, quod docet hanc gratiam de qua nunc quaeritur, esse inspirationem Spiritus sancti corrigentem voluntatem nostram ab infidelitate ad fidem, ab impietate ad pietatem, Can. 5. Talem autem ac tam efficacem inspirationem aliquibus dari, aliquibus non dari, adeo manifestum est, ut non inscitiae solum, sed stultitiae sit illud negare. Denique, habemus optimum et maxime expressum testimonium in Epistola Synodica Episcoporum in Sardinia exsulantium. Sic igitur illi; De gratia non digne sentit, quisquis eam putat omnibus hominibus dari. Paulo post ostendunt quam gratiam intelligunt, nempe eam quae in homine operatur et velle et facere. Pergunt, atque explicant insuper in quibus Dei gratia hoc operatur; Hoc, inquiunt, operatur in suis, ut suam salutem operentur. Sed quinam tandem sunt illi quos Deus pro suis agnoscit? Mox sequitur; Omnes praedestinati ipsi sunt quos Deus vult salvos fieri. Ex quibus omnibus consequitur, Esse aliquos quibus nec data nec destinata unquam fuit haec gratia efficax ad salutem.

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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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