Cap. X Arg. IV: Vasquez's word-refuge — reprobation-as-destination-to-punishment may be in each one's power; we mean denied preparation of sustaining/raising grace (angels and men), which Vasquez himself says is not in our power
So Vasquez (In 1. quaest. 23. disp. 95. cap. 9) seeks a refuge in the word reprobation, and answers that it is in each one's power to be reprobated or not — if the talk is of reprobation that begins from destination to punishment. But we (as we have often warned) do not mean by reprobation the destination of some singular person to punishment, or his pre-damnation. We mean the denied preparation of such grace as would have efficaciously sustained a standing creature and led it to glory — as in the those not chosen angels — or would have efficaciously raised a fallen creature life — as in those not chosen or reprobate men. And on this point we have the Jesuit himself confessing (though elsewhere he opposes us). His words: Since to be Predestined is that grace which God knew would have effect in us be prepared for us, and not to be predestined is that that grace not be prepared for us, and neither is in our power, it follows that to be predestined or not is not in our power. For that reason we have said it is not in our power to be reprobated, if reprobation is taken for negation of grace (Ibid. Pag. 709).
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Vasques igitur, In 1. quaest. 23. disp. 95. cap. 9. in vocabulo reprobationis latebram quaerit, atque respondet, Esse in potestate cujusque reprobari aut non reprobari, si sermo sit de reprobatione quae incipit a destinatione ad poenam. Sed nos (uti saepe praemonuimus) per reprobationem non intelligimus destinationem singularis alicujus personae ad poenam, vel praedamnationem ejusdem, sed negatam praeparationem talis gratiae, quae stantem creaturam efficaciter sustentasset, et ad gloriam perduxisset, ut cernitur in causa Angelorum non-electorum; vel quae lapsam creaturam efficaciter erexisset, et ad vitam aeternam perduxisset, ut in causa hominum non-electorum sive reprobatorum cernitur. Atque hac in re habemus confitentem (qui in aliis nobis adversatur) ipsum Jesuitam, cujus verba apponam: Quum Praedestinari sit gratiam illam, quam Deus novit in nobis effectum habituram, nobis praeparari; et non-praedestinari sit gratiam illam nobis non praeparari, et neutrum horum sit in nostra potestate, efficitur ut praedestinari aut non praedestinari non sit in nostra potestate. Quare hac de causa diximus, non esse in nostra potestate reprobari, si reprobatio pro gratiae negatione sumatur. Haec ille. Ibid. pag. 709.