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Double predestination is a Catholic doctrine

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While this is true, it should be noted that this is typically said with the intent to make/promulgate certain connotations. One who commits a crime is technically a “criminal,” but colloquially speaking, we usually have more of the violent crimes in mind associated with that.

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“Reprobation, insofar as it means the exclusion from glory as an undeserved benefit, does not have foreseen demerits and sins—whether actual or original—as its motive. Yet it properly does, insofar as it includes the will to inflict punishment. The first part, which excludes

“On the point of Predestination and Reprobation, the Reformed, at this time, commonly follow the Thomists and Bellarmine; and we should not scrupulously investigate what they thought before this.”. — Tractatus speciales de controversiis fidei, vol. 2 (Cologne: Apud Ioannem

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Finally getting back to working on my video concerning “double predestination” among Catholic scholastics. This comment will serve as a helpful, basic definition of what’s being said when using the terminology (if one wishes to use it). “Est autem praedestinationis acceptio

“[F]rom his reprobation follows sinne and unbelief, but every consequent is not an effect. Sinnes follow reprobation, damnation sinne, but though sinne be the cause of damnation, reprobation is not the cause of sinne; otherwise then as the non-shining of the Sun is the cause of.

“Heere riseth a question, whether there be an absolute decree of Reprobation? If wee vnderstand an absolute decree to be such as dependeth vpon the onely will of God, without respect to any other thing, then I confesse, I cannot vnderstand any such absolute decree in this. For

RT @reformedtexan: We are indeed firmly of the opinion that Mary never lost her virginity (nihil vnquam de virginitate Mariae fuisse deliba….

“[T]he word ‘reprobation’ can rarely be used in any particular question without some of the added clarifying terms. But through this distinction, the opinions of many are reconciled, which actually agree among themselves, though they seem to be contrary to each other. Yet they

Here is my translation of Robert Bellarmine’s treatment on the cause of reprobation being ascribed partly to the will of God, partly to foreseen sins (and how that’s parsed out), for anyone interested in reading it.

Surely this book will quote, reference, and/or cite early modern Reformed commentaries on Romans, right? I sure hope so!

“Reprobation, with respect to the first effect, which is the permission of sin (which some call negative) has no cause on the part of man. On this point also, as it lies, there is agreement among everyone.”. — Raphael Ripa, O.P. Ad S. Thomae Aquinatis totam Primam partem

“In this passage [De Perfectione Justitiae Hominis, ii], Augustine calls by the name of thing, that which is a thing simply (res simpliciter), viz., substance; for in this sense the act of sin is not a thing.”. — ST. I-II. Q. 79. A. 2. Rep. 1.

RT @JonMcK1647: "I am aware that I am not managing a controversy with Enemies but with Brethren." - Edmund Calamy (1671-1732) in A Defense….

“Although I will not censure (proscindam) Luther, Calvin, and other doctors as their.thankless students do, I am still not bound to embrace all they ever said as the common teaching of our churches.”. — Gisbertus Voetius, Thersites heautontimorumenos (Utrecht: Ex Officina

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