Cap. IX Arg. 6 Sol cont.: 'God always ready to add further grace if well used' does not break the defense — election is absolute gift; reprobation denies efficacious grace de facto, not hypothetical gift
Further: the claim that God is always ready to add further grace to anyone who uses well what he has received — and therefore reprobated no one except from prior regard to despised grace, that is final impenitence and unbelief — has no force to break our defense. First: as election does not posit a hypothetical gift of grace but an absolute infallible one, so reprobation does not deny a hypothetical gift (if someone should do this or that), but denies efficacious grace actually to be given. It does not follow: If Judas had done this or that, he would have obtained further grace; therefore he was not by the reprobation decree absolutely rejected from special grace.
Latin
Porro, quod dicitur, Deum semper paratum esse cuivis homini adjicere gratiam ulteriorem, si bene utatur accepta, atque idcirco neminem reprobasse nisi ex consideratione antecedanea gratiae contemptae, id est, finalis impoenitentiae ac infidelitatis; nullam vim habet ad defensionem nostram infringendam: Primo, quia uti electio non hypotheticam gratiae donationem ponit, sed absolutam et infallibilem, sic reprobatio haud negat hypotheticam gratiae donationem, sub conditione nimirum, si quis hoc aut illud faceret, sed negat gratiam efficacem de facto donandam. Non ergo sequitur, Si Judas hoc aut illud fecisset, obtinuisset ulteriorem gratiam, Ergo non fuit per decretum reprobationis a gratia speciali absolute rejectus.