Two Dissertations · §586 · John Davenant

Cap. IX Resp.: no promise of faith to every adult or regenerating covenant with every infant — passing over some in original sin alone is free right; Major not confirmed

Where, then, stands any promise that God will prep and confer on every adult the faith and penitence that actually reconcile them to him? And where has he bound himself by covenant to every infant — original sin or no — to count them reconciled and by supernatural regeneration make them sons and heirs of eternal life? He does neither, and is under no obligation to do so. So when he passes over or reprobates some who lie in original sin alone, he wrongs no one; he exercises free right. The Major, therefore, was neither sound in itself nor made solid by the proofs they annexed.

Latin

Jam quaero, Ubi Deus promisit se omnibus et singulis adultis praeparare velle et conferre illam fidem et poenitentiam, qua efficaciter et de facto reconcilientur Deo? Aut ubi foedus iniit cum infantibus universis, ut, non obstante originali peccato, teneatur eos pro reconciliatis habere, et supernaturali regeneratione in filios et haeredes vitae aeternae adoptare? Si hoc neque facit, neque facere tenetur, quosdam in solo originali peccato jacentes praeterit sive reprobat, neque in hoc agit injuste, sed libero suo jure utitur. Atque sic videtis, neque Majorem propositionem in se firmam fuisse, nec probationibus adjunctis solide confirmatam.

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