Cap. VIII Resp.: if reprobation means damnation we grant; negative reprobation is antecedent, not damnation
We do not deny that the ungodly's sins cause their damnation. If adversaries, who make the sins with which the reprobate are foresighted as finishing life the moving cause of reprobation, mean by reprobation nothing but damnation or the purpose to damn, so far we agree. But we are disputing negative reprobation — which is not damnation itself, nor damnation's cause, but a certain antecedent. No one is damned because reprobated, but because guilty; eternal death is the wage of transgression, not of reprobation. Set damnation aside, then — it is only improperly called an effect of this reprobation — and let us look at the rest.
Latin
Non negamus peccata impiorum esse causam damnationis eorundem: et si adversarii, qui contendunt causam motivam reprobationis esse peccata quibus reprobi praevidentur vitam finituri, per reprobationem intelligant nihil aliud quam damnationem sive propositum damnandi, eatenus illis adstipulamur. Verum de reprobatione negativa disputamus, quae non est ipsa damnatio, nec causa damnationis, sed quoddam antecedens. Nemo enim damnatur quia reprobatus, sed quia reus: neque mors aeterna stipendium est reprobationis, sed transgressionis. Missa igitur damnatione, quae satis improprie dicitur effectus hujus reprobationis, de reliquis videamus.