Cap. VIII Resp. Primo: we deny foresight as origin of negative reprobation, not of preparing punishment (Aquinas on Rom. 9)
First, always hold this: when we deny that reprobation took origin from foresight of human demerits, we mean reprobation as denied preparation of efficacious grace for certain persons — not as preparation of eternal punishment for those same persons. With Aquinas we gladly grant: foresight of merits cannot be any reason of predestination, because foresighted merits themselves fall under predestination; yet foresight of sins can be some reason of reprobation on the side of the punishment prepared for the reprobate, insofar as God proposes to punish the wicked for sins they have from themselves, not from God (Thomas, Commentary on Romans 9, lect. 2, near the end).
Latin
Primo, id semper tenendum est, Quando negamus reprobationem ex praescientia humanorum demeritorum originem habuisse, nos loqui de reprobatione quatenus significat denegatam praeparationem efficacis gratiae certis personis, non quatenus denotat praeparationem aeternae poenae iisdem personis. Nam cum Aquinate libenter concedimus: Utcunque praescientia meritorum non potest esse aliqua ratio praedestinationis, quia ipsa merita praescita cadunt sub praedestinatione, tamen praescientia peccatorum potest esse aliqua ratio reprobationis, ex parte poenae quae praeparatur reprobis, in quantum Deus proponit se puniturum malos propter peccata quae a seipsis habent, non a Deo. Haec Thomas Comment. in Rom. ix. lect. 2, prope finem.
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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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