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”Whom he predestinated, them he also called.” — Romans 8:30

Whether election and reprobation are from the foreseeing of works.

Jacobus Sadoletus, bishop of Carpentras, illustrating this by [his] exposition [in] the second book of the commentaries on the epistle to the Romans, says that God elects or reprobates no one from the arbitrament of the divine will alone, but elects this [man] because he foreknew him

—that he would not spurn the divine calling, and would not turn away from the light of faith: but he reprobates that [other man], because he foresaw that he himself would set an obstacle against the divine calling, and would repudiate the divine grace. Which opinion he pursues with a prolix treatise, confuting Augustine’s sentence on predestination and reprobation from the good pleasure of God alone. See the next following Annotation.