Cap. IV Arg. 4 Sol: Major — temporal election of actual believers vs eternal gift of faith in Christ
Drop the conclusion and take the Major: The election by which God chose us in Christ is of believers only. If that means temporal election — certain persons severed from the wicked world by efficacious vocation — we grant it is of believers, and of actually believing ones. But we dispute the eternal act of divine election, not its temporal effect. So of eternal election (what this controversy must regard): it is not of believers as if men still outside Christ were foreseen as believers and then elected with that foresight intervening; it is of believers because God foresaw he would give the gift of faith to those he decreed in the eternal purpose of election to give to Christ.
Latin
Sed missa conclusionis ventilatione accedo ad Majorem; quae fuit hujusmodi, Electio qua nos Deus elegit in Christo est tantum credentium. Si de electione temporali, qua certae personae per vocationem efficacem a mundo improborum secernuntur, intelligatur haec propositio, agnoscimus hanc electionem esse tantum credentium, et actualiter credentium: sed nos de aeterno electionis Divinae actu, non de temporali ejusdem effectu, disputamus. Si ergo hanc aeternam electionem respiciant, quam in hac controversia respicere debent, dicimus hanc electionem non esse credentium, quasi quidam homines extra Christum adhuc constituti praeviderentur a Deo ut credentes, et interveniente hac fide praevisa eligerentur; sed esse credentium, quia Deus praevidit se illis donum fidei daturum, quos in aeterno electionis proposito Christo dare decrevit.
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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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