Cap. VIII Arg. 2 Resp.: twofold hate — vengeance vs less love; Vasquez; Leah

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Lastly — and this breaks the nerve of the argument — God may be said to have hated Esau in two respects. First, hated unto vengeance and the punishment of eternal death: so he hates Esau only as a sinner, and for sin itself as moving and demeritorious cause. Second, hated unto denial of some special unowed benefit — that is, loved less: so he can hate Esau only because he does not will to love him. In that latter sense the Apostle says God loved Jacob and hated Esau: by the freest purpose of his will he chose to soften Jacob by special grace, and refused Esau that great benefit. Why choose Jacob for that grace and not Esau? Because God so willed. Why so will? A foolish question — you seek a cause of the divine will in preparing and distributing gratuitous goods beyond the will itself. That hatred here means mere denial of special love in conferring a special benefit, even the Jesuits grant. Vasquez on these very words: to hate is the same as to have loved less. He acts like one who hates who gives a gift to one and withholds it from another. Such hatred needs no sin as its cause. So Jacob is said to have hated Leah (Gen. 29:31).

Latin

Postremo (quod directe nervos hujus argumenti elidit) dico Deum posse dici odisse Esavum duplici respectu: Vel odisse ad vindictam et poenam aeternae mortis illi infligendam: atque sic non odit Esavum nisi qua peccatorem, et propter ipsum peccatum, ut hujus odii causam motivam et demeritoriam: Vel odisse Esavum ad specialis alicujus et indebiti beneficii negationem, hoc est minus dilexisse: et sic potest odisse Esavum, tantum quia non vult eum diligere. Hoc sensu posteriore dicitur Deus ab Apostolo dilexisse Jacobum et odisse Esavum, quia pro liberrimo voluntatis suae proposito voluit Jacobum emollire per specialem gratiam; noluit autem hoc tanto beneficio afficere Esavum. Si hic quaeratur quare elegit Jacobum ad hanc specialem gratiam, et non Esavum, respondetur, Quia Deus sic voluit. Si cur quaeratur quare sic voluerit, stulta est quaestio, quia Divinae voluntatis in bonis suis gratuitis praeparandis et distribuendis quaeritur causa, cujus nulla est praeter suam causam. Jam vero quod odii vocabulum usurpatur pro sola negatione specialis amoris in speciali beneficio conferendo, non diffitentur ipsi Jesuitae. Vasques ad haec ipsa verba Apostoli respiciens, Odisse, inquit, idem est quod minus dilexisse. Habet enim se ad modum odientis, qui aliquod donum quod uni dat, alteri non concedit. Sic tale odisse non requirit peccatum ut causam hujus odii. Hoc sensu Jacob dicitur odio habuisse Leam, Gen. xxix. 31.

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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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