Cap. IX Sol: willing to save anyone if he believes is not decreeing to work faith in everyone — Remonstrants confuse the two; conditional will = faith-salvation nexus
So let the Remonstrants, who press this everywhere, understand: it is one thing seriously to will to save anyone if he believes, another to decree to work in anyone so that he believes. God can will the first without any simulation, even while for some he has decreed not to will the second in their reprobation. One passing note: when we say God wills to save anyone if he believes, by that conditioned will we mean only God's eternal inviolable ordination of the indissoluble bond of faith and salvation — for which bond the promise If you believe, you will be saved holds true of any elect or non-elect person. God's will is not thereby pictured as hanging uncertain over a non-elect man's salvation; such speech only affirms that if the faith-condition were set in the object, God would also actually will to save that person — enough to shut out the simulation they try to pin on God.
Latin
Intelligant itaque Remonstrantes, qui hoc passim urgent, aliud esse velle serio quemlibet hominem servare si credat, aliud decernere operari in quolibet homine ut credat. Potest Deus velle prius absque omni simulatione, quamvis quoad quosdam decreverit nolle posterius in illorum reprobatione. Hic tamen in transcursu illud monere haud abs re erit, cum dicimus Deum velle servare quemlibet hominem si credat, nos nihil aliud denotare per hanc conditionatam voluntatem, quam aeternam illam et inviolabilem Dei ordinationem de nexu indissolubili fidei et salutis: propter quem nexum de qualibet persona electa vel non-electa verificatur haec promissio, Si credideris, salvus eris. Interim voluntas Dei non intelligitur versari circa salutem hominis non-electi quasi suspensa aut incerta; sed hujusmodi loquendi formulis id affirmatur, si conditio fidei in objecto poneretur, esset etiam in Deo voluntas actualis talem personam servandi: quod sufficit ad excludendam illam simulationem quam Deo impingere conantur.
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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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