Cap. VI Arg. 2 close: faith-bearing grace given by freest will — so predestination unbound to prior free-choice acts
So this special efficacious grace that brings forth faith and conversion does not prerequire an antecedent condition of our faith — it is given to some and not to others by the freest will of the Giver. Plainly then predestination itself, the cause of such grace prepared and gifted, is not bound to any antecedent acts of human choice, but is constituted in God's free good pleasure — per Rom. 9:15, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy.
Latin
Quandoquidem igitur haec specialis et efficax gratia quae fidem parit, et conversionem, non praerequirit antecedaneam fidei nostrae conditionem, sed datur quibusdam, aliis non datur, pro liberrima dantis aut non-dantis voluntate; manifestum est ipsam praedestinationem, quae est causa talis gratiae praeparatae et donatae, non esse alligatam actibus ullis antecedaneis humani arbitrii, sed constitutam in gratuito beneplacito ipsius Dei, juxta illud Apostoli, Miserebor cujus misertus fuero, Rom. ix. 15.
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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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