Cap. 7 Quartum: sufficienter / efficaciter—death for elect by absolute saving will
A fourth argument is the distinction most received among all theologians: that Christ died for all sufficiently, for the elect efficaciously. Just as from the first half we refuted those who deny that Christ’s death, by God’s decree, is an applicable remedy for all people, so from the second half those must be refuted who deny that Christ’s death, and that by God’s decree, is a remedy to be applied to the elect efficaciously and infallibly. What else can “He died for the elect efficaciously” mean than that he died with an absolute intention and efficacious will to save the elect?
Latin
Quartum argumentum nobis praebebit receptissima illa inter omnes Theologos distinctio, qua dici solet, Christum pro omnibus mortuum fuisse sufficienter, pro electis mortuum efficaciter. Nam sicuti ex priore membro refutavimus illorum sententiam, qui negant Christi mortem ex decreto Dei esse omnibus hominibus remedium applicabile, ita ex hoc posteriore illi sunt refutandi, qui negant Christi mortem, idque ex decreto Dei, esse remedium electis efficaciter & infallibiliter applicandum. Quis enim potest esse alius sensus horum verborum, Mortuus est pro electis efficaciter, quam, Mortuus est absoluta intentione & efficaci voluntate servandi electos?
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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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Partial through De praedestinatione Cap. 1 subject tip. Cap. 1 mid-Thesis+ remain.
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