Two Dissertations · §589 · John Davenant

Cap. IX Resp.: with the non-elect God acts from philanthropy, goodness, and admirable mildness — conscience convicts innate contagion or voluntary rebellion

Highest mercy, we grant, is how God deals with the elect alone. Toward the those not chosen or reprobate his dealing is not highest right either, but philanthropy and a mildness worth wonder. Their consciences themselves convict them: the reprobation decree did not shove them; innate contagion, voluntary rebellion, or both, brought them into a death they richly deserved.

Latin

Fatemur Deum cum solis electis agere ex summa misericordia: sed affirmamus etiam, agere cum non-electis sive reprobatis non ex summo jure, sed ex φιλανθρωπία, bonitate ac lenitate admirabili; adeo ut convincantur in conscientiis suis se reprobationis decreto non fuisse a Deo impulsos, sed aut innata contagione aut voluntaria rebellione, aut utraque in mortem meritissimam incidisse.

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