Molinaeus: justification from eternity — faith gives the sense of it
Du Moulin (Sedan): justification is from eternity — part of the election decree — unlike regeneration, which begins in time.
Sense of justification is given to believers at a certain time; regeneration’s start is first sparks of faith and first motions of repentance.
On his hypothesis: sins remitted before the sinner believes.
Faith justifies only inasmuch as through faith we have the sense of justification.
Latin
LXXI. Nec videtur ab hac sententia alienus Petrus Molinaeus, saepius jam citatus, & Theologiae in Academia Sedanensi Professor. Hic enim justificationem censet esse ab aeterno, & in eo differre a regeneratione, quae fit in tempore, & habet initium. Nam loquens de justificatione hominis coram Deo, Illa, inquit, est ab aeterno & ante saecula, quippe pars decreti electionis, quamvis ejus sensus detur fidelibus certo tempore. At haec nempe regeneratio, fit in tempore, & habet quoddam initium, nempe primas scintillas fidei, & primulos motus poenitentiae. De Justificatione & Fide justificante, part. 1. Thesi 54. Proinde, ex ejus hypothesi, peccatori peccata remissa sunt antequam credat, nec aliter fides justificat, quam quia per fidem habemus justificationis sensum.