Two Dissertations · §771 · John Davenant

Cap. X Ultimum Secunda: Vasquez — Pelagians spoke the same way of predestination and of grace; God gives in time as he disposed from eternity

Lest resting on Augustine alone seem unfair, hear Vasquez the Jesuit on the knot of these questions (In 1. Aquin. Disp. 91, c. 2, p. 631): The Pelagians, he says, spoke the same way of Predestination and of Grace; of old the same question of Grace and Predestination stood between Pelagius and the catholics. The reason is ready: God gives his grace in time as he disposed to give it from eternity. If from eternity he predestined saving grace to be given freely to someone, then in time he gives it freely; and if in time he gives only with regard to some prior good act of the human will, then from eternity he predestined that he would not give otherwise.

Latin

Sed ne cuiquam videatur paulo iniquius, si solius Augustini judicio acquiescamus, audite quid Vasquez Jesuitae de connexione harum quaestionum fateatur, In 1. Aquin. disp. 91. cap. 2. pag. 631. Pelagiani eodem modo, inquit, de Praedestinatione et de Gratia loquebantur: eadem etiam fuit antiquitus quaestio de Gratia et de Praedestinatione inter Pelagium et Catholicos. Hujusce rei ratio in promptu: Nam Deus eodem modo donat gratiam suam in tempore, quo disposuit illam donare ab aeterno. Si ab aeterno praedestinavit gratiam salutiferam gratuito dandam alicui, tum in tempore dat eam gratuito: et e contra, si in tempore non dat nisi ex intuitu ad praeviam aliquam bonam operationem voluntatis humanae, tum ab aeterno praedestinavit se non aliter daturum.

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