Cap. 6 Arg. 8 Schoolmen: Alvarez—efficacious grace’s start not from nature’s use of sufficient help

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Alvarez, On the Helps of Divine Grace, Disp. 58, p. 263: Suppose we assert a law God has set, that he will infallibly give efficacious help to those who use well—or who choose to use—sufficient help from their innate liberty alone. Then the start of efficacious grace would already come from nature and from the creature’s innate liberty of willing to use sufficient help well. That is the very law, the very decree of God, that Arminius, Corvinus, and the rest of that school defend with such zeal. They say sufficient grace is given to all because of Christ the Mediator’s merit; but efficacious grace—grace that in the act itself converts and regenerates—is to be given only if people use that exciting or sufficient grace well, that is, if the will, once stirred by grace and made able, puts forth the power of willing planted in it. That makes the beginning of efficacious grace belong to Nature. The same Alvarez, same place: this causal is false—“because the person stirred by God wills to consent, therefore he is helped.” This causal is true—“because the person stirred by sufficient grace is helped by efficacious help, therefore he cooperates.” He proves it at length in Disp. 59, and there also holds this proposition most true: because God wills that the person will, therefore the person wills.

Latin

Alvares, De auxiliis Divinae gratiae, Disp. 58. pag. 263. Si asseramus legem a Deo statutam dandi infallibiliter auxilium efficax bene utentibus, aut uti volentibus ex sola sua innata libertate auxilio sufficienti, jam initium gratiae efficacis esset ex natura et ex innata hominis libertate, volentis bene uti auxilio sufficienti. Haec est ipsissima lex sive ipsissimum illud decretum Dei, quod ab Arminio, Corvino, reliquisque ejusdem Scholae Theologis tanto studio propugnatur. Dicunt enim, gratiam sufficientem propter meritum Christi Mediatoris dari omnibus; efficacem vero, id est, eam, quae ipso facto convertat regeneretque, ea lege dandam, si bene utantur illa excitante sive sufficiente, hoc est, si voluntas per gratiam excitata et potens reddita, insitam sibi facultatem volendi exserat. Quod initium gratiae efficacis Naturae adscribit. Idem, Alvares, Ibidem, Haec causalis est falsa: Quia homo excitatus a Deo vult consentire, ideo adjuvatur: Haec causalis est vera: Quia homo excitatus gratia sufficiente adjuvatur auxilio efficaci, ideo cooperatur: Quod disputatione 59. probat copiose: ubi hanc propositionem etiam asserit esse verissimam, Quia Deus vult ut homo velit, ideo homo vult.

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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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