Cap. IV Arg. 3 Sol close: Minor true of medium — not eligere credentes; Rom. 9:15

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Now the Minor: to will to save believers by the foolishness of preaching is God's good pleasure concerning human salvation. Who denies it? It is good pleasure about the means and organ without which no adult can be led to salvation. It does not express that eternal εὐδοκία by which some are elected to salvation and its means, others passed by. In a word: the Apostle said It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save believers — so he requires preaching and faith as means antecedent by God's good pleasure to effecting salvation. He did not say to elect believers. So he does not require faith or preaching as foreseen antecedent conditions of the eternal act of election. Nor do 1 Cor. 10 and Heb. 3 on unbelievers help: they do not prove eternal election or passing-by from foresight of future faith or unbelief, but that in executing his eternal decree God finally brings into his rest those whom efficacious vocation working according to purpose has made faithful, and excludes those who remain unbelieving by their own heart's corrupt perversity. Why he had mercy on these rather than those — do not ask, if you would not err. Suffice Rom. 9:15: I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy.

Latin

Jam accedo ad Minorem, quae illis Apostoli verbis constat, Credentes velle salvare per stultitiam praedicationis est beneplacitum Dei de salute humana. Quis negat? Est enim beneplacitum Dei de medio et organo, absque quorum ope ad salutem nemo adulta aetate perduci potest. Sed non exprimit illud aeternum εὐδοκίας beneplacitum secundum quod quidam ad salutem et salutis media, praeteritis aliis, eliguntur. Uno verbo; dixit Apostolus, Placuit Deo per stultitiam praedicationis servare credentes. Requirit igitur praedicationem, et fidem, tanquam media ex Dei beneplacito ad ipsam salutem efficiendam antecedanea. Non dixit, Placuit Deo per stultitiam praedicationis eligere credentes. Non igitur requirit fidem, aut praedicationem, tanquam conditiones praevisas et antecedaneas ad aeternum actum electionis. Neque huc faciunt quae de incredulis ex 1 Cor. x. et ex Hebr. iii. allata fuerunt. Ea enim loca non probant Deum ab aeterno eligere, aut praeterire homines ex antecedanea praevisione fidei aut incredulitatis in iis futurae; sed Deum in exsecutione aeterni sui decreti, tandem introducere eos in requiem suam, quos vocatione efficaci, et secundum propositum operante, reddidit fideles; eos autem excludere, qui proprii cordis corrupta perversitate manent increduli. Cur autem horum potius quam illorum misertus fuerit, noli quaerere, si non vis errare. Sufficiat illud, Miserebor cujus misertus fuero, et commiserabor quem commiseratus fuero, Rom. ix. 15.

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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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