Part I Protheoria: Remaining dissent from Dordrecht — six heads; easy consociation
So that if any consensus of the Brethren with the Quinquarticularian Theologians remains, the dissent from the men of Dordrecht consists chiefly in these: (1) In phrase, where Lutherans speak of election or reprobation (yet not from Luther) as from foresight of faith, or from foresight of unbelief — although the Formula of Concord did not distinguish πρόγνωσις from προορισμός, as Peucer long ago observed in the Confession set out by Hospinian. (2) In reviewing the order of the Decrees; namely with a conditional Decree set first — concerning the salvation of all, redemption, calling to faith, and so on — provided they are not wanting to it. (3) In the object of Christ's Death, which is all and every human being, elect as well as reprobate. (4) In asserting the mode of the operation of Grace, which with respect to all is even internal, and efficacious from God's side, yet which men resist and against which they set an obstacle — although elsewhere they confess the impotence of Free Will for the work of Conversion.
(5) In the asserted possible apostasy of the saints, which the Reformed also do not deny if the saints are considered in themselves: yet the same Brethren deny it if they are considered elect according to God's infallible foresight. (6) Finally in the Reformed sentence now and then twisted or taken in a sinister sense, and in the Predestinarian Heresy affixed to them — such as was once affixed to Augustine, to Gottschalk, and to those of like mind (ὁμοδόξοις). But once that inequity of judgments and suspicions is hereafter ordered to be of no force, in the remaining things that leave a difference either in phrase, or in the method of conceiving the Decrees, or in the mode of the matter, or its extent, or its circumstances — the substance being safe on both sides (for example Christ's Death, or preventing and confirming Grace, or justifying Faith, or Holy Baptism), overturned by the common Adversaries of Protestants — easy association will follow. Nor will anything be wanting to the complement of either party's vows, except the longed-for peace, that God the perfecter of all may complete it — who daily also fills even what is beyond oath and beyond hope, as I may speak with the Lyric poet.
Latin
Ut si quis remanet Fratrum consensus cum Quinquarticulanis Theologis, dissensus vero a Dordracenis, praecipue in his consistat, 1. In phrasi, ubi de electione vel reprobatione loquuntur Lutherani, (nec ex Luthero tamen) tanquam ex praevisione fidei, vel ex praescientia incredulitatis. Πρόγνωσιν licet a προορισμῳ non distingueret Concordiae Formula, ut Peucero pridem observatum, in Confessione exhibita ab Hospiniano. 2. In ordine Decretorum recensendo; praeposito scilicet Decreto conditionato; de omnium salute, redemptione, vocatione ad fidem, &c. modo huic non desint. 3. In objecto Mortis Christi, qui sint omnes & singuli homines, tam electi quam reprobi. 4. In modo operationis Gratiae asserendo, quae respectu omnium sit etiam interna, & efficax ex parte Dei, sed cui homines resistant, & obicem ponant; licet aliis impotentiam Lib. Arbitrii ad Conversionis opus fateantur. 5. In asserta possibili apostasia sanctorum, quam nec negant Reformati, si sancti in se ipsis considerentur: Negant vero ex altera parte iidem Fratres, si considerentur electi secundum praescientiam Dei infallibilem. 6. Denique in detorta subinde vel sinistre accepta sententia Reformatorum, & afficta Praedestinatiana Haeresi, qualis olim afficta Augustino, Godeschalco, & ὁμοδόξοις fuit. Sed judiciorum ac suspicionum hac iniquitate deinceps valere jussa, in caeteris quae relinquunt discrimen vel in phrasi, vel in methodo concipiendi Decreta, vel in rei modo, aut extensione, aut circumstantiis, salva utrobique substantia (puta Mortis Christi, aut Gratiae praevenientis & confirmantis, aut Fidei justificantis, aut S. Baptismi) per communes Protestantium Adversarios eversa, facilis consociatio fuerit: Nec ad votorum utriusque partis complementum deerit quicquam, praeterquam optatam pacem ἵνα τελέσῃ ὁ πάντων τελειωτὴς Θεὸς, qui quotidie πληροῖ etiam τὰ παρ' ὅρκον, καὶ παρ' ἐλπίδα, ut cum Lyrico loquar.