Cap. IX Resp.: reprobation decree is secret — reprobates not left without hope of pardon merely by being reprobated
Further: the clause annexed to their Major — that such are left in that condemnation without any hope of pardon — is wrongly pinned on the decree of reprobation. Like predestination, the reprobation decree is secret; as to which particulars, no mortal knows it beforehand of himself or of another. As the predestined do not yet have hope of pardon from being predestined alone, so the reprobate are not left without hope of pardon from being reprobated alone. Paul the predestined could not conceive hope of pardon except through conversion and faith in Christ; Judas the reprobate is not left without hope of pardon except through his unbelief and impiety against Christ. Finally if Arminians argue from mere infallibility of the event and immutability of the decree that any reprobate is stripped of all hope of pardon, that inconvenience presses their view no less than ours. They grant Judas — and so every particular reprobate — was from eternity reprobated by God's fixed peremptory sentence; so that on their view it is as certain, infallible, and defined with God that Judas will never obtain pardon and eternal life as on ours. If, then, on that Arminian reprobation Judas is not left without all hope of pardon, neither will he be on the reprobation the orthodox defend.
Latin
Porro, assumptum illud, quod hisce verbis majori propositioni annectitur, ita ut sine ulla spe veniae in ista condemnatione relinquantur, perperam decreto Dei reprobantis tribuitur. Nam ut praedestinationis, ita et reprobationis decretum arcanum est, nec quantum ad distinctionem singularium ulli mortalium sive quoad seipsum sive quoad alium a priori notum. Sicuti ergo praedestinati, ex eo solum quod praedestinati, spem veniae nondum habent; ita nec reprobati, ex eo solum quod reprobati sunt, sine ulla spe veniae relinquuntur. Nam ut Paulus praedestinatus spem veniae concipere non potuit nisi mediante conversione et fide in Christum; ita nec Judas reprobatus sine spe veniae relinquitur, nisi mediante infidelitate sua et impietate contra Christum. Denique si propter solam eventus infallibilitatem et decreti Divini immutabilitatem Arminiani contendant, quemlibet reprobatum omni spe veniae destitutum, hoc incommodo non minus urgetur ipsorum sententia quam nostra. Nam illi agnoscunt Judam, adeoque singulares omnes homines reprobatos, fuisse ab aeterno fixa et peremptoria Dei sententia reprobatos; ita ut juxta illorum opinionem tam certum, infallibile et definitum fuerit apud Deum, quod Judas veniam et vitam aeternam nunquam consequetur, quam in nostra. Si ergo posita hac reprobatione Arminiana Judas absque omni spe veniae non relinquitur, neque posita illa quam orthodoxi defendunt relinquetur.