Two Dissertations · §713 · John Davenant

Cap. X Arg. III close: reprobation does not fall on men only after they are considered to have persevered in sins to the last breath — many consequences of reprobation reach them in this life's course

But we confirm the Minor still more openly: reprobation does not fall on men only after they are considered to have persevered in their sins to the last breath. Many consequences of reprobation belong to the reprobate while they are set in this life's course — denial of efficacious grace or of calling according to purpose; permission of the wicked to go on here in their sins unpunished; delivering them over to a reprobate mind. These and the like.

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Sed adhuc apertius confirmamus Minorem, nempe, Reprobationem non cadere in homines postquam ad extremum halitum in peccatis suis perseverasse considerantur; Quia multa consequentia reprobationis pertinent ad reprobatos in hujus vitae cursu constitutos; qualia sunt negatio gratiae efficacis sive vocationis secundum propositum, permissio improborum ut impune pergant hic in peccatis suis, traditio eorundem in reprobum sensum. Haec et alia hujusmodi.

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John Davenant argues from Scripture that Christ's death is a remedy offered to every person, so that anyone who hears the Gospel may be called to believe, and then opens a second dissertation on predestination.

John Davenant (1572–1641) was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, bishop of Salisbury from 1621, and England's leading delegate to the Synod of Dort. A Reformed theologian of the moderate school, he defended universal atonement language within a Calvinist frame.

The Two Dissertations (1650) press two theses: that Christ died sufficiently for all, and that God sincerely calls all who hear the gospel — against the novel claim that Christ died only for the elect in every sense. They are Davenant's mature statement of the hypothetical-universalist position that divided English Calvinists.

This volume covers the opening of the first dissertation through the close of chapter 3, with the theses on the extent of Christ's death.

Date1572–1641 AD (Bishop of Salisbury; 1650 Cambridge imprint)

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