Arrowsmith - Houston-Packer Collection BT70 .A776 1659

336 d Chain ofTrinciples. Aph. felf, or of the fmthat bringeth it, but an antecedent onely ; wherefore the Non-eled are indeed laid to be fitted to that deftrudion which their fins in the conclufion bring upon them, but not by God. I call it a remarkable dif- ference, becaufe where it is once right- ly apprehended and truly beleeved it fnfficeth to stop the mouth of one of thofe greateft calumnies and odiums which are ufùally caft upon our do. ¿trine of predeflination, viz, that God made fundry of his creatures on pur. pole to damn them : a thing which_ the rhetorick of our adverfaries is wont to blow up to the higheft pitch of aggravation. But is as loon blown, away by such as can tell them in the Daveri. words of the Excellent a Dailenant, Anivradve; f. " It is true that the elect are feverally on Gods lovz rnarlinde. cc created to the end & intent that they Pag,29 may be glorified together with their " head thrift jails: But for the Non- " elect we cannot 'truly lay that they " are created to the end they may be tor- L.

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