Cap. II: principal question — foresight act as merit/cause of election?
The chief question for the first half of the coming dispute is this: in those elected and predestined to glory, is there some act or quality God foresaw and weighed beforehand — or anything at all — that stands as merit, cause, reason, condition, or antecedent so bound to the decree of election that when that prior thing is set in the Divine foresight election follows, and when it is denied election is denied? Let us see what Pelagians, Scholastics, and certain recent doctors hold on this.
Latin
Principale quaesitum quod attinet ad prius membrum futurae disceptationis, hoc est; Utrum in illis qui eliguntur & praedestinantur ad gloriam, detur aliquis actus aut qualitas a Deo praevisa & praeconsiderata, aut aliud quodcunque, quod sit meritum, causa, ratio, conditio, aut antecedens quolibet modo ita praesuppositum decreto electionis, ut ex positione talis praecedanei in praevisione Divina ponatur electio, ex negatione, negetur. Quid sentiant hac de re Pelagiani, quid Scholastici, quid nuperi quidam Doctores, videamus.