Cap. IX Arg. 4 Sol cont.: Bellarmine's mediate/immediate dodge — sufficient help for an Indian or American infant in the parents cannot be explained
Second: Bellarmine is driven to the mediate-or-immediate distinction, and will not dare claim sufficient grace is given immediately to every infant. How dark that is — that an infant born among Indians or Americans had sufficient help shown in his parents, when no one can say what that help was! And if defending sufficient grace means fleeing to ancestors, it is far safer to go all the way back to the first parents — where no one doubts posterity also received sufficient grace in them — than to stop at any later ancestors, of whom it remains uncertain whether they received such sufficient grace in their children's name or not.
Latin
Secundo, Bellarminus cogitur confugere ad illam distinctionem, mediate vel immediate; nec audet sustinere sufficientem gratiam omnibus parvulis immediate dari. At quam hoc obscurum est, huic parvulo, inter Indos aut Americanos nato, in parentibus suis fuisse exhibitum auxilium sufficiens, cum quale hoc fuerit, nemo potest explicare! Porro, si ad defensionem sufficientis gratiae liceat ad majores confugere, multo tutius et certius est ad primos usque parentes ascendere, de quibus nulla quaestio est, quin sufficientem gratiam in illis et posteri acceperint, quam in aliis majoribus nostris quibuscunque subsistere, de quibus incertum erit acceperintne talem sufficientem gratiam filiorum suorum nomine, an non acceperint.