Cap. IX Resp.: Major false for pagan infants — Augustine Enchiridion 99; Vasquez on infants
I answer: as to pagan infants — neither in the covenant nor regenerated in Christ — the Major of their syllogism is openly false. If to condemn for original sin alone is to act with strict justice, then with such God does act with strict justice. So Augustine from the catholic Church's sentence (Enchiridion race is by so just a divine judgment damned in the apostate root that even if none were freed from it, no one could rightly blame God's justice; and those freed ought so to be freed that from the many not freed, left in most just damnation, it would be shown what the whole fellowship had merited — and whither even they would be led by God's due judgment unless his not owededed mercy helped. Even Vasquez the Jesuit, who sharply defends predestination from foresighted merits, must confess: if we mean reprobation as rejection from God's grace, reprobate infants had no cause of their reprobation at all; if rejection from beatitude, those infants for whom providence so disposes that no human remedy can be applied were by God's decree shut from the kingdom of heaven right after foresight of original sin they contracted (on ST I, q. 23 a. 3, disp. 89 c. 6). So Arminians push their error farther than the Jesuits themselves.
Latin
Respondeo, Majorem propositi syllogismi quoad infantes Paganorum, qui nec in foedere censentur, nec in Christo regenerantur, aperte falsam esse. Nam si condemnare aliquem ob solum peccatum originale sit stricto jure agere, pertinet est cum talibus agi stricto jure. Atque hinc Augustinus ex catholicae Ecclesiae sententia aperte pronunciat, Universum genus humanum tam justo judicio Divino in apostatica radice esse damnatum, ut etiamsi nullus inde liberaretur, nemo possit recte Dei vituperare justitiam: et qui liberantur sic oportere liberari, ut ex pluribus non liberatis, et in damnatione justissima derelictis, ostenderetur quid meruisset universa consortio: et quo etiam ipsos debitum judicium Dei duceret nisi ejus indebita misericordia subveniret, Enchirid. cap. 99. Quin etiam Vasques Jesuita, qui praedestinationem ex praevisis meritis acriter propugnat, cogitur tamen fateri: Si de reprobatione loquamur qua quis rejicitur a gratia Dei, in parvulis reprobis nullam omnino fuisse suae reprobationis causam; Si de reprobatione, qua quis a beatitudine rejicitur, sermo sit, parvulos eos quibus Divina providentia ita disponit, ut nullum remedium humanae industriae possit adhiberi, fuisse Dei decreto exclusos a regno caelorum, statim post praevisionem originalis peccati ab ipsis contracti, In 1. qu. 23. art. 3. disp. 89. cap. 6. Arminiani igitur longius progrediuntur in defensione erroris sui quam ipsi Jesuitae.