Cap. IX Arg. 8 Sol third: foundation rotten — blessed angels elected, damned angels passed over, not from foresight of merits/rebellion but from mere liberty of will
Third: the very foundation this whole argument leans on is rotten. It seems to take as granted that the Devils were reprobated from foresight of their actual sins. We say the contrary: the blessed angels were elected before the world's foundations were laid — not from foresighted merits but from the electing One's pure grace; and the damned angels were likewise from eternity passed by, those not chosen, or reprobated — not from foresight of future rebellion and t from God's mere will or liberty not willing to give them that grace. So if Arminians from the Devils' reprobation want to prove men were reprobated only from antecedent foresight of actual sins, they ought first to confirm that by solid argument for the demons' reprobation before drawing consequences about men's.
Latin
Tertio, ipsum fundamentum cui innititur tota haec argumentatio putridum est: Nam videtur pro concesso sumere, Diabolos fuisse ex praevisione actualium suorum peccatorum reprobatos. At nos e contra dicimus, Angelos beatos ante jacta mundi fundamenta fuisse electos, non ex praevisis eorundem meritis, sed ex pura gratia eligentis; et Angelos damnatos fuisse pariter ab aeterno praeteritos, non-electos, sive reprobatos, non ex praevisione futurae rebellionis et finalis in eadem obdurationis, sed ex mera voluntate sive libertate Dei hanc gratiam illis donare nolentis. Si igitur Arminiani a Diabolorum reprobatione probare volunt homines minime fuisse reprobatos, nisi ex antecedente praevisione et consideratione actualium peccatorum, debuerunt hoc prius solido argumento aliquo confirmare quoad reprobationem daemonum, quam inde de hominum reprobatione consequentias inferre.