30 il Chin of Principkr, /Th. 5. of trua and other preferments, whence the title of Patres conleripti afcribed to the Senators of 'kola. So theScripture condefcending to our capacities and fpeaking of God after the manner of men, attributeth to him abook oflife, wherein it fuppofeth a legible writing. and Regiftring the names of all thofe- perfons whom he bath irreverfibly predeftinated to lifeeverlaffing. I fay, irreverfibly , for if that of Stoicks be true In Japienturn decretis nulla litura, In the decrees of wife men there will be no blotting and blurring; how much moremay it be affertedconcern- ing tholeeternal Decrees of the onely wife God ? If it became Pilate to fay, John What I have written I have Dritten it 19,12 would certainly mu-become the great God to blot fo much as one nameout of the Lambs book of life writtenby himfelfbefore the world wasoWe may See my TaCtica take it for granted that this book will SAwl.lib.3 not admit any Deleatur , o rofany eap.z. §. 9,1o, t &fee?at. Expurgatorie Index, whatever fome pre- tend
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