Two Dissertations · §756 · John Davenant

Cap. X Arg. X: elect/non-elect divide arises from God’s diverse decrees of preparing and giving—not from human operations about commonly offered grace; Arminius intolerable

From all this it is plain: the divide of elect and those not chosen, believers and unbelievers, those who persevere and those who om prior, distinct human-will operations about commonly offered grace, but from God’s prior, diverse decrees and workings—decreeing, preparing, and giving to one what he neither decreed nor prepared nor gave to the other. So Arminius’s view is intolerable: it credits God with a common preparation and offer of grace, but credits each person’s free will, stirred by that common grace, with the very discrimination of believers and unbelievers, elect and those not chosen.

Latin

Ex quibus omnibus manifestum est, Discrimen electorum et non-electorum, credentium et non-credentium, perseverantium et non-perseverantium oriri non ex antecedaneis et discretis humanarum voluntatum circa gratiam communiter oblatam operationibus, sed ex antecedaneis et diversis Dei decretis et operationibus, in decernendo, praeparando et donando uni quod non decrevit, neque praeparavit neque donavit alteri. Intoleranda est igitur Arminii sententia, quae ad Deum refert communem quandam gratiae praeparationem et oblationem, ad singulorum autem hominum liberum arbitrium hac communi gratia excitatum refert ipsam discriminationem credentium et non-credentium, electorum et non-electorum.

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