Cap. IX Arg. 10 Sol: God knows Gospel benefits will harm reprobates and decreed not to add softening grace — yet preaching is not from primary intention a medium of damnation
We grant God knows Gospel preaching and his other benefits will be harmful to these reprobates. We grant further that no reprobate's will is so wild and intractable that God cannot soften it to faith and penitence — that is, to the effect of obeying. We grant finally that God has decreed with himself not to apply to these reprobates that special efficacious grace by which they would be softened. All that granted, we still deny that Gospel preaching, or that gift of scantier commoner grace, is proposed from a primary nearest intention of damning, or ought to be judged media subordinated to damnation. From foresight, or God's permission, or a following event, we may not infer that God's primary intention, and the subordination of media, aimed at producing that event.
Latin
Concedimus quidem, Deum scire Evangelii praedicationem, aliaque omnia sua beneficia hisce reprobatis fore noxia; concedimus insuper, nullius reprobati voluntatem tam feram tamque intratabilem esse, quin possit Deus illam ad fidem et poenitentiam (hoc est, ad obediendi effectum) emollire; concedimus denique, Deum decrevisse apud se hisce reprobatis non apponere illam gratiam specialem et efficacem, qua emollirentur: Sed hisce omnibus positis negamus, aut Evangelii praedicationem, aut illam parcitoris et communioris gratiae donationem ex primaria et proxima intentione damnandi proponi, aut tanquam media damnationi subordinata judicari oportere. Non enim debemus ex praevisione, aut permissione Dei, aut ex eventu subsequente inferre primariam Dei intentionem, et mediorum subordinationem ad talem eventum producendum spectasse.