Two Dissertations · §637 · John Davenant

Cap. IX Arg. 9 Sol: Suarez and Vasquez — angels elect/non-elect with no mass of perdition; demons reprobated before any foresighted sin

On the angels we have the Jesuits themselves with us. Suarez (Opusc. De concursu Dei 2.5): In the angels there was no mass of perdition or infected nature, and yet God elected some, did not elect others, destined some to honor, and left others to become vessels of contumely. Of men, the same Suarez says, it is to be held the same way: if the talk is of non-election, which some call negative reprobation, it is true that its cause is God's will alone, without any cause from man's side being awaited. Indeed even Vasquez, who favors us less in this controversy, frankly grants that the demons were reprobated and permitted to fall before any foresighted sin — which reprobation he calls reprobation from grace, a decree of not pitying, etc. (In 1. Aquin. Disp. 45.3 and 5).

Latin

De Angelis habemus ipsos Jesuitas nobis assipulantes. Suares, Opuscul. De concursu Dei, lib. 2. cap. 5. In Angelis nulla erat massa perditionis aut naturae infectae, et tamen quosdam elegit Deus, alios non elegit, quosdam destinavit in honorem, alios vero reliquit ut fierent vasa contumeliae. De hominibus etiam eodem modo statuendum dicit idem Suares: Si sermo sit de non-electione, quam nonnulli reprobationem negativam vocant, sic verum est, Causam illius esse solam Dei voluntatem, nulla expectata causa ex parte hominis. Quin etiam Vasques, qui minus nobis favet in hac controversia, tamen ingenue nobis largitur, Daemones ante omne peccatum praevisum fuisse reprobatos et permissos cadere in peccatum: quam reprobationem ille vocat reprobationem a gratia, decretum non miserendi, etc., In 1. Aquinat. disp. 45. cap. 3. et 5.

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