Cap. IV Arg. 3 Sol: if Major universal, false — declared beneplacita do not contain formal decree
Let them argue their way: unless the Major is universal, nothing follows from particulars. If universal — Any or every good pleasure of God concerning human salvation is predestination itself to salvation — it is manifestly false. Declared good pleasures do not at once express or contain a formal decree of predestination. For God declared in his word the good pleasure of his will concerning the qualities and works of those to be brought to salvation, the means they must use, and the whole order of executing predestination — yet those do not contain the election decree, because they look equally to all and are set forth as law.
Latin
Sed permittamus eos suo modo agere: dico, nisi major propositio sit universalis, ex omnibus particularibus nihil sequetur. Si sit universalis hoc sensu, Quodlibet, vel omne, beneplacitum Dei de salute humana est ipsa praedestinatio ad salutem, tum erit manifeste falsa. Nam in quovis Dei beneplacito de salute humana declarato, non ilico exprimitur aut continetur formale decretum praedestinationis. Declaravit enim Deus in verbo beneplacitum voluntatis suae de qualitatibus et operationibus hominum ad salutem perducendorum, de mediis quibus eos uti oporteat, denique de toto ordine exsequendae praedestinationis: in hisce tamen non continetur electionis decretum, quia ex aequo ad omnes spectant, et per modum legis proponuntur.