Cap. VIII: those denied such grace are passed by — demerit concomitant, not cause of praeterition
Those to whom God in his eternal decree denied such grace and the same ordination to glory, he did not elect but passed by — and, as theologians speak, reprobated. Add this: we do not deny that in all on whom divine reprobation falls there is found concomitant demerit adhering to the subject. What we deny is that that praeterition or non-election we call negative reprobation flowed from regard to that demerit. God sees original demerit in elect and reprobate alike — yet not by discrimination of cause, but by his good pleasure, he wills to elect Jacob, and wills not to elect but to reprobate Esau.
Latin
Quibus Deus in aeterno suo decreto talem gratiam eandemque ordinationem ad gloriam denegavit, eos non elegit sed praeteriit et, uti loquuntur Theologi, reprobavit. Illud etiam adjungendum est: Nos haud negare in omnibus hominibus, in quos cadit actus Divinae reprobationis, inveniri demeritum concomitans, vel subjecto adhaerescens: sed negamus praeteritionem illam sive non-electionem, quam reprobationem negativam vocamus, ex intuitu hujus demeriti profluxisse. Deus enim demeritum originale tam in electis quam reprobis intuetur, et tamen non pro discrimine causae, sed pro suo beneplacito vult eligere Jacobum, et non vult eligere, sed reprobare Esavum.