and Decrees of Clod, &c. 57 will. This alto is handled by many Schoolmen, and much úfed by the yefuits and Arminians. To pafs by others, Pennon-us handleth it pro- pugn.l. 4. c, 21. having firft (hewed; c. 20. p. a21. that chryfofom and cbryf in Epb. Yom. a.Da- Dama cene firft ufedit. His explicatory Propofìtiuns are, I. Vol. Antes, matt fid.Ortbod./ 2.c.29. b conf non eft' in Dea refpelita omnium Volitortam, fed folum refpetitd eo- e'coni.Manch, ad foam, rum qu.i aliqua modo pendent ex lib. arbitrìe creatur,o, z. Yoluutas ante- cedens eft ilia qua Deus visit hominis falootem quantum in ipfo eft, 6. qua ilium ad falutem ordinat , c media adfalutem neceffaria ?rapt- rat , quibus nifi per ípfum hominem ftcterit , falutem affequatoer: 3. Non femperVoluntas antecedens b confequens circa objetla contraria verfantur, fedpotefi idem obje6tum effeVoliturn á Deo Yöluntate turn ante- cedente turn confequeute. 4.Voluntas antecedens in Deo eftVoluntas be- neplaciti, 6. non (alum vóluntasfsgni. 5. Voluntas antecedent eft forma- liter & proprie inDeo exfens, 6,non folumper metaphoram ad cum mo- dum, quoVobentas figni. 3br. I tell you their fenfe, that I may the better open the plain truth to you, which is as followeth. t. This diftine5tion ofVol. antes, 6 eonfa is not applyed to God as he is our creator, or End, nor as he is meer Pro- prietor or Benefactor 5 bin only 8 he is Reiter, or Moral Ruler of man. a. As Government hath an Antecedent and Confequent part, viz, Legifla- tion and yudgement (with Execution) fo Gods Antecedent willisnothing but his Legal will, or his Will as Rector fignified by hisLaws: And his confequent will, is his7eodicial will, or expreffed in 3udgement; One An- tecedent to Mans part ( obedience or difobedience) and theother Con- fequent to it: 3. It is moft certain that God willeth Antecedently all that is inhis Law, that is, that all that believeand repent (hall be faxed : And that hewilleth confequently that 7údas e. g. and every finally impenitent unbeliever (hall be damned. For what God loth, that he willeth to do : But God doth himfelf make filcha Law, andpals fuch a judgement Ergo he is willing of it. SEC T. X 6f the Order of Gods Decrees by way ofIntention and Execution: 't62. Here is no part of this Contróverfie more contentioufly andI fear prefumptuoufly and too audatioufly handled, than this of the Intentional order of Gods Decrees. Of whichmany have faid much, but noman bath laid fo great a firefs on it as thofe two very good menDr. TWO fife and his followerSamuelRutherford.*But on this fuppoff- tion wehave had many very bold Schemes of Gods Intentional Decrees given us ; of which you may fee fome in worthy Mr. Perkins Golden Chain, and in Bezel, and out ofhim in Englifh hisTrattatepublifhed with Mr. Gilbies of Predei}ination, and inPifcator, and others. 363.By thisway the Anti- arminians are fallen into the diftinl parties,of Sublapfarians, and Supralapfarians And thefe into twoparties; one mak- ing man as not exigent in effecognito, the other man in innocency, the objet( of Prede(tination, 364. ;.The common way is to diftribute the Means among thelnfelves; as any of them are (ubfervient to others, as their end, and fo tomake a great many of Decrees or partsof theDecree; firft of theultimate end, and then of the next,and thenext to that, and fo on till you come tothe firft means which is noend ; as the Writer imagineth themto lye. 365, The Alliaca Carnease. r. D. E. tells you the fente of T9,óm. Scotus, Oc.¢¢am,da Gregor. of this difiiti8i- ont and that of Scotus and Ockam is to the fame purpofe with WhatI here fay ofu; including that antecedent Grace which they call fuf6cient,whichf God .giveth toperfwade men to confent. The Schoolmen are dit agreed of the fente of this diftinaion : and not underftanding it , contend about it,. See Ratg.cie l:Dei, dif'. ig: §2,3,4,5.Pi95,io-6. dre. *Scotus's order ii elfe- where recited : . Take Vafquec's is in a: The. 53. a. 4. d. 95. c. 6. Bodl of theadult and infants è [i. Praviderit Deus. om- nes in Maffa p'erditionis potato abnaxios propret tranigrefonem Adeemi : 2. Hoe non obliante, volait primaria voluntate exfuipfo. quofdam parvulas er annul adultos ad beatitudineei pervenire,er ad bat media fufficientia . camcefferit , quamves efficacia ea con- grua negaverit .5 non tensione excludendi cos d regno,fed offendendi divi- ties feat in vaia miferi- cardi,. g: ut viderit eat in persa, trig. aseo attuali decedere,. dr4.Obid alfa. caciter decreverit ipfós ex- pellers d beatitudine , dr adultn .. ad poenam ignis defiinaverit, ex quoquar- to infianti, incipit Repro. báäo eoram, el gloria.cirea, a/iosvero arvalos Hasbro(' tonte pote applicare remedia ,. Ordo in divina prcfcientiaer eorum repro bath . à negations gratin incipit.] Would you not think that he took all thefe for diflinelthoughts in God? when he mean; eth no real dverfity at all.
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