Cap. VII: reprobation decree not thrust into all acts — common love; Rom. 2:4-5

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Further: that deep secret decree of non-election or reprobation must not be awkwardly stuffed into every act of God, as if with the non-elect he did nothing except from that decree. Though he would not pity some so far as to decree their infallible leading to eternal life, and willed to destine them to ruin with their sin intervening, yet while they live on earth — especially within the Church's pale — in giving bodily and spiritual benefits that by nature tend to salvation, he does much with them from common love or φιλανθρωπία toward the whole human race, and much from the covenant by which he lavishes certain supernatural benefits on all members of the visible Church. In the event those gifts become noxious to the reprobate — yet one must not say God by the reprobation decree intends abuse of his gifts, and hostilely supplies them to the non-elect so that abusing them they may be punished and destroyed. Rather take Paul's word: God does much with the non-elect from that overflowing kindness that spreads to all, though not in equal measure (Rom. 2:4-5 — or do you despise the riches of his goodness and patience, not knowing God's kindness leads you to repentance? But by your hardness you treasure up wrath).

Latin

Porro, altum illud et arcanum non-electionis sive reprobationis decretum non est ita omnibus Dei actionibus importune ingerendum, quasi cum non-electis Deus nihil ageret, nisi ex hoc non-electionis decreto. Utcunque enim Deus quorundam noluerit eousque misereri, ut decernet eos ad vitam aeternam infallibiliter perducere, atque voluerit cosdem interveniente illorum peccato exitio destinare, tamen dum agunt in terris, atque praesertim intra Ecclesiae septa, in conferendis tum beneficiis corporalibus tum spiritualibus, atque ad salutem ex rei natura tendentibus, multa cum illis agit ex amore communi sive φιλανθρωπίᾳ, qua universum genus humanum prosequitur, multa ex foedere, quo secundum suam ordinationem omnibus Ecclesiae visibilis membris supernaturalia quaedam beneficia largitur. In eventu haec omnia Dei dona fiunt reprobis noxia et perniciosa: non tamen dicendum aut sentiendum est, Deum propter decretum reprobationis intendere abusum donorum suorum, et hostili animo ea suppeditare non-electis, ut eos hisce abutentes puniat ac perdat. Pauli potius sententia amplectanda est, qui ostendit Deum cum non-electis multa agere ex illa redundanti benignitate quae ad omnes homines se diffundit, quamvis non pari gradu aut mensura. Huc spectant illa, Rom. ii. 4. 5: An divitias bonitatis ejus et patientiae contemnis, ignorans te benignitate Dei ad resipiscentiam deduci? Sed pro duritia tua, et corde quod resipiscere nescit, thesaurizas tibi iram, etc.

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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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