Cap. VI Arg. 4: Augustine, Arminius, Vorstius — unequal conversion; absolute mercy
Augustine again: when God wills to save outright, no human will resists; when he wills to save only if men will believe, most wills resist — so he wills to save some by absolute good pleasure that goes before and causes their faith, not that presupposes it. That thought drove Arminius to admit God does not work everyone's conversion and salvation equally. But a prudent agent shapes his work from the end he intends. So there was a special will to save some before foresight of their faith — and from it sprang that special calling and working that begot faith in their hearts. Vorstius, weighing the same special vocation, grants that toward some God exercises an extraordinary mercy free of every promise and absolute — and in that sense, He will have mercy on whom he will (Piscator, Reply to the Apology, p. 17).
Latin
De qua idem Augustinus: Deo volenti salvum facere nullum humanum resistit arbitrium; Deo volenti salvum facere sub conditione, Si homines velint credere, resistit arbitrium plurimorum: vult itaque quosdam salvos facere absoluto beneplacito praecurrente et causante eorum fidem, non praerequirente. Hujus rei consideratio eo adegit Arminium, ut fateretur, Deum non aequaliter omnium conversionem et salutem operari. At qui prudenter operatur, ex intentione finis dirigit ac gubernat modum suae operationis. Fuit ergo specialis voluntas et intentio salvandi quosdam ante eorum fidem praevisam, unde nascebatur illa specialis Dei vocatio et operatio, quae fidem in illorum cordibus gignebat. Quinetiam Vorstius, considerata hac speciali quorundam vocatione, concedit nobis exerceri erga quosdam extraordinariam quandam misericordiam, quae ab omni promissione libera et absoluta est: atque hujus respectu illud dici, Miserebitur quorum vult, Apud Piscat. in Resp. Apolog. pag. 17.