Aphorism's two members; prior reason is God's free will; posterior reasons ad hominem or ad rem
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But of this aphorism there are two members: one by which it is denied that the resurrection can be demonstrated as necessarily future from the light of nature; the other by which it is affirmed that it can be proved from that light to be possible and truly fitting.The reason of the former is that both resuscitation and glorification hang on God's free will, which cannot otherwise be known or demonstrated except from revelation, which, made by him likewise freely and kindly, opens to us so great a mystery looking toward beatitude and our last end.But the reasons of the latter are brought either to the person or to the thing.
Latin
Sunt autem aphorismi hujus duo membra, unum quo resurrectionem necessario futuram e lumine naturae demonstrari posse negatur: alterum quo eam possibilem & vero consentaneam esse, ex eo probari posse affirmatur. Prioris ratio est, quia tum resuscitatio, tum glorificatio pendet a libera Dei voluntate, quae aliunde sciri aut demonstrari nequit nisi e revelatione, quae ab ipso libere itidem & benigne facta nobis pandit tantum mysterium spectans ad beatitudinem & ultimum finem nostrum. Posterioris vero rationes afferuntur vel ad hominem, vel ad rem.