Cap. 3 Satisfit: preface — we do not defend a de-facto salvation already obtained for every person
Before we dissolve those things which can be urged on the contrary side, this is to be premised: we are by no means pleading the cause of those who maintain that Christ by his death obtained for all and each human being the remission of sins, reconciliation with God, and a state of salvation. So Borreus seems to think in Arminius, who, resting on this foundation, asserts that all infants of all nations dying without actual sins are saved, because God took the whole human race into the grace of reconciliation. He therefore opines that by the very sacrifice of Christ's death the whole human race is placed in a state of salvation, from which if they do not fall away they will without doubt obtain salvation. Many ascribe the same error to Huber and Puccius. But our defense is this: not indeed that by this death of Christ salvation has in fact been obtained for all and each, or that all and each have by its benefit been received into grace and set in such a state that if they persevered they would possess eternal life; but that this death of Christ is, by the decree of the Divine will, a remedy applicable to the whole human race, or to any individual of the human race, unto salvation — although in procuring and effecting the application itself God specially has mercy on some and not on others. You have received this opinion established by several arguments: now let us vindicate it from the objections which can be brought on the contrary side.
Latin
CAPUT III. Satisfit objectionibus adversariorum. Priusquam ea diluamus quae in contrariam partem obtendi possunt, illud praemonendum est, nos haud agere illorum causam qui statuunt Christum morte sua omnibus et singulis hominibus impetravisse remissionem peccatorum, reconciliationem cum Deo, et statum salutis. Sic Borreus apud Arminium sentire videtur, qui hoc fundamento nixus asserit omnes omnium gentium infantes morientes sine peccatis actualibus salvos esse, quia Deus universum genus humanum in reconciliationis gratiam assumpserit. Opinatur ergo ipso sacrificio mortis Christi totum humanum genus in statu salutis collocari, a quo si non exciderint, salutem indubie obtinebunt. Eundem errorem Hubero et Puccio multi adscribunt. Nostra autem defensio est; non quidem hac morte Christi salutem esse de facto impetratam omnibus et singulis, aut omnes et singulos ejus beneficio esse in gratiam receptos, et in talem statum repositos, in quo si perseverint, vitam aeternam possiderent; sed hanc mortem Christi esse, ex Divinae voluntatis decreto, remedium toti humano generi, vel cuivis humani generis individuo, applicabile ad salutem, quamvis in ipsa applicatione procuranda et efficienda Deus quorundam specialiter misereatur, quorundam minime. Hanc sententiam aliquot argumentis stabilitam accepistis: jam ab objectionibus quae in contrariam partem afferri possunt eam vindicemus.