Fathers

Two Dissertations · §150

Cap. 7 Arg. 4 Ratio 3: Spirit’s gifts prove special intent—Heb 7:25 Savior of certain ones

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Whatever spiritual, saving good Christ’s Spirit works in any people, Christ’s poured-out blood merited for those same people. But Christ’s Spirit produces in certain persons repentance and faith, and through faith and repentance an infallible application of his death. Therefore he merited these special goods for those same people; therefore, sacrificing himself on the cross’s altar, he meant to merit them. It is not right to suppose by chance that Christ procured greater spiritual benefits for these than for those. What will the adversaries say? That Christ’s Spirit gives people benefits Christ never merited for them? They will not dare so to trample Christ’s merit. That faith itself, the will, and the act of fruitful application are not special gifts of the Holy Spirit? They will blush at so crass a Pelagianism. Let them confess with us: just as through Christ’s death special goods were procured for the elect, so in the will of the dying Christ, and of the Father accepting that death, there was an efficacious intention to procure and confer those goods. And that is the singular privilege in Christ’s death we claim for the elect alone, because the fact shows God destined them alone to be saved efficaciously by his Son’s death. Hence Hebrews 7:25 establishes the office of Savior of certain ones—that is, of the elect—both by merit and by efficacy.

Latin

Quicquid boni spiritualis & salutiferi Christi Spiritus efficit in ullis hominibus, id Christi sanguis effusus promeruit iisdem hominibus: At Christi Spiritus producit in certis quibusdam personis poenitentiam & fidem, & mediante fide ac poenitentia infallibilem applicationem mortis suae: Ergo iisdem hominibus haec specialia bona promeruit: Ergo seipsum in ara crucis sacrificans promereri intendit. Neque enim temere aut casu fas est putare, Christum majora spiritualia beneficia hisce quam illis procurasse. Quid hic respondebunt adversarii? Nunquid dicent Christi Spiritum impertire beneficia hominibus, quae Christus illis minime promeruit? Non audebunt Christi meritum ita conculcare; Nunquid respondebunt, Ipsam fidem, & voluntatem, & actum fructuosae applicationis non esse Dona specialia Spiritus sancti? Pudebit tam crassi Pelagianismi. Fateantur ergo nobiscum, sicut per Christi mortem specialia bona sunt procurata electis, ita in voluntate Christi morientis, Deique Patris, hanc mortem acceptantis, fuisse efficacem intentionem de iisdem procurandis & conferendis. Atque hoc est illud singulare privilegium in morte Christi, quod solis electis vindicamus, quia ex facto apparet, Deum eos solos morte Filii sui efficaciter servandos destinasse. Unde Heb. vii. 25. statuitur Servator quorundam, id est, electorum, munus, nempe tam merito, quam efficacia.

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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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