Cap. III Sol. Rat. 14: adversaries conflate antecedents of glory with antecedents of God's intention
Here the adversaries slip: they think what precedes eternal life (to which men are elected) must also be conceived as preceding the elector's act or intention — God's decree by which they are elected. But that internal eternal act of the divine will by which he elects, and the glory or heavenly joy to which he elects, are greatly different. So we can rightly affirm of the object what we can only falsely affirm of God's act or intention destinating that object to a particular person. Example — true of the object: Paul's calling, justification, and pious life are seen by God as preceding his glorification. False if fitted to God's act: those same are seen by God as preceding the divine intention to glorify Paul.
Latin
Sed in hoc labuntur adversarii, quod arbitrantur ea quae sunt antecedentia ad vitam aeternam, ad quam homines eliguntur, concipi etiam necessario oportere ut antecedentia ad actum sive intentionem eligentis, id est, Dei decretum, a quo eliguntur. Nam actus ille internus et aeternus voluntatis Divinae, quo eligit, et gloria, sive caeleste gaudium, ad quod eligit, sunt valde diversa. Unde possumus aliquid recte affirmare de objecto, quod non possumus nisi falso affirmare de actu sive intentione Dei qua illud objectum singulari personae destinatur. Verbi causa; Vera est haec assertio de objecto: Vocatio Pauli, justificatio, et pia vita sive operatio videntur a Deo ut praecedanea ad ejus glorificationem: sed falsa est eadem si ad actum Dei accommodetur, hoc modo, Vocatio Pauli, et justificatio, et pia vita sive operatio videntur a Deo ut praecedanea ad intentionem Divinam de Paulo glorificando.
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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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