Cap. 1 subject: Tertio — rationality as common condition
III. Third: the qualities or conditions of the subject taken commonly and without distinction — what must clothe that subject on which the Divine act of predestination or reprobation, taken without discrimination, terminates. First, beyond dispute: for either act to fall on any subject at all, that subject must be endowed with a rational nature. Rationality is therefore a necessary condition always to be supposed in the predestined or the reprobate. The reason is plain to anyone. Both predestination and reprobation are God's decree about the supernatural end of eternal blessedness, and brute nature cannot be capable of that end. So when we say someone is ordered to blessedness by predestination, or shut out of it by reprobation, both must be understood of a rational creature. What is clear need not be long.
Latin
III. Tertio in loco jam accedamus ad qualitates sive conditiones subjecti communiter & indistincte considerati; hoc est, ad inquirendum, quibus qualitatibus necesse sit ut vestiatur, & quasi induatur illud subjectum, in quod hic actus Divinus sive praedestinationis sive reprobationis indiscriminatim terminetur. Primo, extra controversiam est, ut actus praedestinationis aut reprobationis cadat in subjectum quodcunque, hanc qualitatem sive conditionem requiri, ut illud subjectum sit natura rationali praeditum. Rationalitas ergo est necessaria conditio semper supponenda in subjecto vel praedestinato, vel reprobato. In promptu & cuivis obvia est hujus rei ratio; quia scilicet tam praedestinatio quam reprobatio est decretum Dei circa finem supernaturalem aeternae beatitudinis; cujus finis natura bruta nullo modo capax esse potest. Quando igitur dicimus aliquem ad beatitudinem ordinatum per praedestinationem, aut a beatitudine exclusum per reprobationem, necesse est ut utrumque de rationali creatura intelligatur. Sed quae perspicua sunt, longa esse non debent.