Cap. IV Arg. 9 Sol: diverse Christ-founded decrees — conditional gospel vs singular election
To expose the errors: diverse decrees on human salvation can come into view, all founded on Christ, yet election itself does not consist in all of them. First are known decrees published to all, stating under what conditions or by what means men are led to salvation — I will save all who repent, believe in the Messiah, and persevere in that faith and newness of life to the end. By those, all mortals are taught what conditions let them expect salvation. But they set no singular persons elected or predestinated before others. Christ is their foundation: God would never have deigned to deal with corrupt rebellious man under such terms, or promise eternal life to the believing and repenting, without this new-covenant Mediator in whom all God's promises are Yea and Amen. Yet election's reason is not in them: with life offered promiscuously to all sinners if they believe and repent, unless another decree of pure mercy also came, no one would be saved, because no one would believe.
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Ut detegantur errores hujus argumentationis, sciendum, diversa decreta de salute humana in considerationem nostram venire posse, quorum omnium fundamentum est Christus, et tamen in illis omnibus ipsissima Electio non consistit. Sunt primo decreta nota et omnibus promulgata, quae exprimunt et continent, quibus conditionibus, vel quibus modis et mediis homines sunt ad salutem perducendi — qualia sunt, Ego salvabo omnes qui resipiscent, qui credent in Messiam, qui in hac fide et vitae novitate ad extremum usque perseverabunt. Talibus decretis omnes mortales promiscue edocentur, quibus conditionibus impletis liceat illis salutem exspectare. At iisdem nullae singulares personae ad salutem prae aliis a Deo ponuntur electae aut praedestinatae. Illorum decretorum Christus est fundamentum: quia Deus nunquam dignatus fuisset cum homine corrupto et rebelli sub talibus conditionibus agere, aut vitam aeternam credenti et resipiscenti promittere, nisi interveniente hoc novi foederis Mediatore in quo omnes promissiones Dei sunt Etiam et Amen. In hisce tamen decretis ratio electionis non includitur: quia positis talibus decretis, quae vitam omnibus peccatoribus promiscue offerunt, si crediderint et resipuerint, nisi etiam accederet aliud purae misericordiae decretum, nemo servaretur, quia nemo crederet.