fI Chain of Principles. 3 t Y within himfeif to denyunto the Non- Exerc, z° elea that peculiar love of his, where- with elehion is accöpanied,as alto that fpecial grace which infallibly bringeth to glory: Ofwhich negations, permif- lion of fin,obduration in lin,and dam- nation for fin, are direr confecluents. This defcription carries in the face of it a clear realon why the thing de- fcribed goeth under thename ofNega- rive reprobation becaufe it ftandeth mainly in the denial of thole free fa- vours which it pleafeth God tobeflow uponhis elef}. As for the termof pre- terition, we neither are, nor ought to be afhamed thereof , however force bold writers have jeered it, becaufe it is very fgnificant, and hathbeen made -ufe ofby their betters.ProîJ er byname, and that both in verle and in prole. For in one of his Poems he recordeth this as a Pelagian tenent --Q,uòdgratia Chrifli Zjullum omnino hominem de cunEiis qui generantur Prætereat.- S f That
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