Cap. VI Arg. 13: minor first — eternal favor given or denied by prior free-choice use
Now the minor. This election and passing by from foresighted faith and unbelief, we say, hangs God's grace on the merit of the human will. First: grace of God most properly is that favor — eternal benevolence — by which he wills to confer eternal life on this singular person. But that love or favor, the first gift in which all others are given, the Remonstrants have given or denied as men first used free choice well or ill in admitting or rejecting the sufficient grace they say is offered to all. That is as much as to say: God began to love a man unto eternal life because the man's free choice applied itself to grace.
Latin
Jam ad Minorem accedamus. Dicimus ergo hanc electionem et praeteritionem, quam ex fide et infidelitate praevisa fieri defendunt, gratiam Dei ex merito humanae voluntatis suspendere. Primo igitur: Gratia Dei propriissime sumpta est favor ille, vel aeterna Dei benevolentia secundum quam vult huic singulari personae vitam aeternam conferre. At hic amor sive favor Dei, quod est primum donum in quo caetera omnia donantur, ex sententia Remonstrantium datur et negatur prout homines prius bene aut male usi fuerint libero suo arbitrio, in admittenda aut repellenda illa sufficienti gratia quam omnibus oblatam asseverant. Hoc perinde est, ac si dicerent, Deus hominem ad vitam aeternam amare incepit, quia hominis liberum arbitrium ad gratiam se applicavit.