Cap. 7 Arg. 4 Ultimo: Gen. 3:15 seed promise—Satan crushed under the elect (Rupert / Marlorat)

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4. Lastly, we can confirm our view from those places in which God absolutely promised Christ, as he died, that by the merit of this death the Church would infallibly be set free from death and given eternal life. Genesis 3:15: “The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent’s head.” What else is that than that by the power and merit of Christ’s death Satan will be trampled down, and that all those of whom God in Christ specially willed to have mercy will be freed from his power? Who then can doubt that Christ referred his death—Satan’s vanquisher—with special regard to those who were to be freed through him by a special benefit? And that those to be infallibly freed were the elect is confessed by all sound theologians. Rupert (On the Victory of the Word of God, book 2, chapter 18) expressly calls the elect the serpent’s conquerors, because the efficacy of Christ’s death and resurrection crushing the Devil is destined and procured to be applied efficaciously to them alone from special mercy. So Marlorat on this place: the Devil and the wicked generation fight against God’s elect, but the elect at last prove stronger because of their Head, Christ, who by his death abolished him who had the empire of death. Christ’s death was therefore specially intended and destined to crush Satan under the elect’s feet and to save them efficaciously—and that from God’s own most firm promise.

Latin

4. Ultimo, confirmare possumus sententiam nostram iis locis in quibus Christo morienti absolute Deus promisit Ecclesiam merito hujus mortis infallibiliter a morte liberandam; & vita aeterna donandam. Gen. iii. 15. Semen mulieris conteret caput serpentis. Quod quid aliud est, quam virtute & merito mortis Christi conculcatum iri Satanam, & liberandos ex ejus potestate illos omnes quorum Deus in Christo voluit specialiter misereri? Jam quis dubitet Christum mortem suam Satanae debellatricem speciali intuitu ad eos retulisse qui speciali beneficio per eum fuerunt liberandi? Hos autem infallibiliter liberandos fuisse electos, apud omnes sanos Theologos in confesso est. Rupertus, lib. 2, De victoria verbi Dei, cap. 18, Electos nominatim appellat Serpentis victores. Quia nimirum efficacia mortis & resurrectionis Christi Diabolum conterentis, iis solis ex speciali misericordia efficaciter applicanda destinatur & procuratur. Unde Marloratus in hunc locum, Diabolus & generatio malorum contra electos Dei pugnant, sed electi tandem fortiores evadant propter Caput ipsorum, nempe Christum, qui per mortem suam abolevit eum qui mortis habebat imperium. Mors igitur Christi specialiter intenta & destinata fuit ad conterendum Satanam sub pedibus electorum, eosdemque efficaciter salvandos, idque ex firmissima promissione ipsius Dei.

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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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