Testard: general grace offers, particular grace applies
Thesis XXIX. Paul Testard, some years ago pastor of the church at Blois, uses the distinction of grace into particular and universal in a very different sense in his synopsis of the doctrine of nature and grace (thesis 300).
Grace toward sinners, he says, is of two kinds, general and particular. General grace is given to the whole world: it is the offer of salvation and the power to be saved. Particular grace belongs to the elect alone: it is the application of salvation. Its nearest foundation is free election, its middle stage effectual calling, and its crown justification, preservation and glorification.
He immediately adds that this particular grace is either prevenient, such as election and calling, or mercifully rewarding, such as justification, preservation and glorification.
Latin
XXIX. Paulus vero Testardus ante aliquot annos Blaesensis Ecclesiae Pastor in synopsi doctrinae de natura & gratia, thesi 300. distinctionem gratiae in Particularem & Universalem sensu longe diverso usurpat. Nam, inquit, gratia erga peccatores duplex est, Generalis, & Particularis. Generalis quae toti mundo datur, Oblatio & facultas salutis. Particularis quae est Electorum tantum, salutis applicatio. Cujus fundamentum proximum est electio libera: medium vocatio efficax: corona justificatio, custodia, glorificatio. Et statim gratiam illam particularem dicit esse vel praevenientem, qualis est Electio & Vocatio: Vel misericorditer remunerantem, qualis est justificatio, custodia, glorificatio.