Two Dissertations · §707 · John Davenant

Cap. X Arg. I/II: reprobates rejected from the elect's grace not from foreseen final unbelief, but as lying in Adam's common sin — Arminius himself puts common sin before election/preterition, not final unbelief

And that rejection is not from their foreseen unbelief or final impenitence, but inasmuch as they are considered lying in Adam's common sin. Nay, Arminius himself, in the Collation with Junius, contends that what must be presupposed to election and preterition is not final unbelief or impenitence, but that sin in which all are commonly conceived. Nor does he dare make that the cause why God passes some over — only why he can pass some over (Pag. 96).

Latin

Idque non ex praevisa eorundem infidelitate aut impoenitentia finali, sed quatenus considerantur in communi Adae peccato jacentes. Quinetiam ipse Arminius in Collatione cum Junio, non infidelitatem aut impoenitentiam finalem, sed peccatum illud in quo omnes communiter concepti sunt, contendit praesupponendum esse electioni et praeteritioni: neque illud audet ponere causam cur Deus aliquos praetereat, sed solummodo cur aliquos praeterire possit, Pag. 96.

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