Cap. IX Arg. 1 Resp.: head of error — reprobation is not the same as the decree of damning
Jesuits and Arminians use a like argument in the predestination debate — and we answered it before. The head of the error here is presuming reprobation, or the decree to reprobate, is altogether the same as the decree to damn. For us the decree to damn names a final judgment formed from all eternity in the mind of God the Judge and confirmed by his will's good pleasure: to punish with eternal death, for that sin, a man foresighted and considered guilty of sin at this life's very exit. The decree to reprobate names God's eternal good pleasure not as Judge but as freest Agent: resolving not to apply to certain persons that grace of special not owededed mercy which would in fact soften, convert, and lead them to eternal life.
Latin
In causa praedestinationis consimili argumento utuntur tum Jesuitae tum Arminiani, cui a nobis antea satisfactum fuit. In hoc argumento caput erroris est, quod reprobatio sive decretum reprobandi idem prorsus esse praesumitur, quod decretum damnandi. Nobis autem decretum damnandi designat sententiam peremptoriam in mente Dei Judicis ab aeterno conceptam, et voluntatis placito confirmatam, qua hominem praevisum et consideratum, ut peccati in ipso exitu hujus vitae reum, statuit propter illud peccatum aeterna morte punire: decretum autem reprobandi denotat aeternum placitum Dei, non ut Judicis, sed ut liberrimi Agentis, quo apud se statuit quibusdam personis non apponere illam specialis et indebitae misericordiae gratiam, quae de facto eos emolliret, converteret et ad vitam aeternam perduceret.