2,7$ Aph.. 5. Dews oc- edaa eJevolnit, nonJun¿Jr7n- tanda; au- tena mon j ffa fait non Jlsnt neganda: nt in iltu illicitè çn- riofi, in iflis darrrnzbiliter in- vcn=airnp; in grati. De y car Gent. cap. 7. I. G. Red.Re- deem. p11.7,'.2.4 3. ;in.7. Ibid..,a..z7 8. 'iv. 46. T. P. Divine philanthropy def;nded, C.4. § z. Chainof Principles. Treadle ofPrinciples) after I had due- ly pondered that grave admonition of ,Ambrofe, or according toothers of Pro- ffer , Such things a God would have kept fecret mull not be pried into by us; norfuck denied as be bath openly declared : left me be found in the firmer attempt unlawfully curious, in the latterdamnably unthankfull. And alto laid to heart the endeavours, not of foreiners onely, but ofcertain late- Engliíh writers to polfefs their readers withvehement and ftrong pre- judices againf} the long received truth in thofe points. One of them telleth us, It isfacrilegious to grant that God bath from eternity elected a certain number of men per:finally unto falvation, whom hepurer po%th to bring thereunto infallibly arc. Elfe- where ítyling it, That capitali errour of perfonal Elec` ion and Reprobation. Another fpeaking of preterition or negative reprobation hath thefe words. This is one of the « (PxPuarx îvhich have been in fa- moufly invented to difgufe and palliate the fright full rigidnef3 of their doctrine. Not long
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