Cap. 6 Arg. 4 open: Contrary inconveniences—uneven grace pinned on the human obstacle

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The same point can be proved from the plain inconveniences that press the contrary view. If by Christ's death it has been universally obtained that God is bound—by the decree itself, or by some law of congruity—to grant, as far as in him lies, to every human being the grace of gospel preaching and of inward sanctification, then the chief reason why one person in fact shares both graces and another does not will lie here: that one has thrust up an obstacle and pushed the grace away, or has blocked it from being offered at all, while the other has neither pushed it away nor blocked it. Our opponents do not shrink from that consequence. They do not reduce the difference between evangelical calling and saving grace denied or granted to God's bare will, but to different conditions or dispositions on the human side. So Corvinus against Tilenus, page 489: though God does not preach the word of the cross everywhere, he is still ready to preach it to all who duly submit themselves to the ministry of the law—that is, who follow the light of the natural law alive even in Gentile hearts. Writing on natural gifts, page 118, he says God left those gifts to the nations so that if they used them according to God's intention, they would be led to glorify God in the measure of their knowledge, and on to Christ and the knowledge of him; but if they held down in injustice the truth they had, they would be left in their ignorance. Here he openly hangs the gospel call on the use or abuse of natural gifts.

Latin

Hoc idem probari potest ex incommodis manifestis quibus urgetur sententia contraria. Nam si hoc morte Christi sit universaliter impetratum, ut Deus ex ipso decreto, sive lege quadam congruitatis teneatur, quantum in se est, omnibus & singulis hominibus gratiam Evangelicae praedicationis atque internae sanctificationis concedere, tum sequetur, rationem primariam cur hic de facto fiat particeps utriusque gratiae, ille non fiat, in eo sitam, quod hic obice opposito hanc gratiam repulerit, aut ne offeretur omnino impedierit, ille nec repulerit nec impedierit. Hanc consequentiam non refugiunt adversarii. Nam vocationis Evangelicae & gratiae salutiferae negatae aut concessae discrimen non in meram Dei voluntatem reducunt, sed in conditiones sive dispositiones diversas ex parte hominum consideratas. Sic Corvinus, Contra Tilen. pag. 489. Deus licet ubique verbum crucis non praedicet, omnibus tamen iis illud praedicare paratus est, qui ministerio legis sese debite subjiciunt, hoc est, qui sequuntur lucem legis naturalis etiam in Ethnicorum cordibus vigentis. De donis naturalibus differens, pag. 118. dicit, Deum haec dona gentilibus reliquisse, ut siquidem secundum Dei intentionem istis donis uterentur, ad Deum pro mensura suae cognitionis glorificandum, ad Christum ipsiusque cognitionem ducerentur: contra vero, in sua ignorantia relinquerentur, si veritatem quam habebant in injustitia detinerent. Hic aperte suspendit vocationem Evangelicam ex usu aut abusu donorum naturalium.

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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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