Sole Doubt: Whether this precept would bind one to whom certain damnation had been revealed

Yet the Seraphic Doctor believes this impossible case, book 1, dist. 48, dub. 1 of the text. D. Thomas there art. 4. ad 2. inclines to it. The same has Dionysius the Carthusian in his dialogue on the judgment of the soul, art. 5. where he reports Alexander, William, Halensis. The same thinks Albert the Great, and others.

The OTHERS indeed say that it can be revealed. So D. Thom. loc. cit. and quaest. 23. de ver. art. 8. ad 2. Maior book 3, dist. 26. quaest. 3. Gabriel lect. 68. and 69. on the Canon. Caspens. de spe disp. 3. sect. 2. Vasquez 1. 2. disp. 22. Fagundez lib. 1. in Decal. cap. 31. n. 13. The Thomists everywhere, Vulpes disp. 59. art. 3. who says it can happen even regularly. Finally, of the absolute power, the Scholastics commonly assert it, with whom Mastrius subscribes, book 3, disp. 6. quaest. 19. Arriaga disp. 30. sect. 2. who, together with Arretinus the Scotist, says that in that case one cannot despair, although he is not bound to hope. The others indeed say that he can not will beatitude. So Suarez, Turrianus, Fagundez, Coninck, Amicus, Mastrius, Poncius, and others.

I say therefore that this revelation cannot happen.

It is PROVED by the Seraphic Doctor, because this revelation would cause evil, and no good; for then that man would have to will to be separated from God, as an enemy, nor could he keep the precepts, but would have to go away headlong in looseness, and despair. Which the adversaries vainly deny, whence also it would follow that the precept of hoping does not urge, since it would be about a thing impossible of attainment.

They OBJECT. We know that the Antichrist is to be damned, and when he comes, he will be recognized from his works, and thus some of the just will flee from him. Similarly the damnation of Judas was revealed, Matth. 26, Woe to that man, etc. and Ioan. 17 he calls him the son of perdition.

Mastrius answers num. 498. that the perdition of Judas and of the Antichrist was revealed not to Judas himself, but to the Church, and therefore the induced inconveniences do not follow.