Cap. 7 Scholastici: Stapleton and Estius — efficacy for future friends / elect
7. Stapleton (Moral Promptuary, Second Sunday after Easter, p. 254): Dying, Christ died effectually for friends alone — for friends-to-be after each one's conversion, not for those who were already friends. This Romanist does not shrink from granting Christ's dying a singular intention toward the elect. They are the future friends after conversion for whose effectual redemption he laid down his life while, with the rest, they were still ungodly, enemies, sinners, dead in sins. He is said to have died for all humans as to sufficiency; for his sheep — his elect — as to this efficacy, that is, with a singular intention, from his death's merit, to give them the effectual grace by which they believe and are saved. 8. Estius on Titus 2:14, Who gave himself for us: that is, who in assumed flesh delivered himself up, whether for all humans or specially for the elect, in whose person Paul often speaks. Christ's death-price suffices to redeem and save all, yet is applied unto salvation to the elect alone. Estius thus hints two things: Christ's offering had a general respect to all and a special to the elect; and that special respect must be defined as joined to an intention of applying it with certainty. He did not say the elect alone apply Christ's death to themselves by free choice's powers, but that it is applied unto salvation to them alone — by electing God, intending this good for his elect from Christ's death by special favor.
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7. Stapletonus, Promptuar. Moral. Dominic. 2. post Pasch. pag. 254. Christus moriens efficaciter quidem pro solis amicis mortuus est, idque pro futuris amicis post conversionem singulorum, non pro iis qui antea amici fuerant. Non veretur hic Papista singularem Christi morientis intentionem quoad Electos agnoscere. Nam hi sunt illi amici post conversionem futuri, pro quibus efficaciter redimendis Christus animam suam posuit, quando cum caeteris impii, inimici, peccatores, in peccatis mortui exstiterunt. Mortuus quidem dicitur pro omnibus hominibus, sed quoad sufficientiam: pro ovibus autem, sive electis suis, quoad hanc efficaciam, id est, cum singulari intentione ex merito mortis suae dandi illis gratiam illam efficacem unde credant & salventur. 8. Estius, ad illa verba, Tit. ii. 14. Qui dedit semetipsum pro nobis, Hoc est, inquit, qui in assumpta carne tradidit semetipsum, sive pro omnibus hominibus, sive speciatim pro electis, in quorum persona Paulus saepe loquitur. Nam pretium mortis Christi sufficit quidem omnibus redimendis & salvandis, sed solis ad salutem applicatur electis. Hactenus ille. Duo hic innuit Estius: Unum, Christi oblationem generalem respectum ad omnes, ac specialem ad electos habuisse; Alterum, Hunc specialem respectum in eo constitui oportere, quod cum intentione certi applicandi sit conjunctus. Non enim dixit, Soli Electi hanc mortem Christi viribus liberi arbitrii sibi applicant ad salutem, sed, Hisce solis applicatur ad salutem, Dei scilicet eligentis, & hoc tantum bonum electis suis ex Christi morte intendentis, favore speciali.