and Decreesof god, &c. 63 npt;,juxta rei writ-aunt. Richard. is full for what I fay; J. d.45. Volruaa$ . five volens de Deo fecundum efentiam diciturr non efe aliui Ville,.. alias( Lai But yet his Valle hoc. fpeaketh not his efe qua effi.; and therefore he addeth that when God is laid faireout meat, it is his Efence; but to fay, Hocdut illudfait out vult is'but to fay, Hoc not illud eft (ab- ¡taaum.ftientia vil voluntatia qua ipfe Delis eft. Et Voluntas Dei eft prima_ & famma taufa omnium ; cujus caulk non eft quartais ; et' non ea diverja Valuates, fad di.orfa larario de es in.Scriptures. An Richardes in lee. p. rqr. faith but this, that Tpfires divin Ville nulla eft ratio mariai, cum realiter idem fit quad Dean t Tonaeb 'Ordinations qua eft inter divinumve,'te dr ipfrm valitnm bene eft ratio aligna reFßeflu alitajasvoliti. which is no more than I have laid. And as to Majes, Roi5 did liTiocite hiatt, sa Ito thereprofefictit chat Prcdelltnanton and Volition,is but Relatio rationis¢rdenominatioex trinfeca as to God. And his ordo fignornm inmate divina is but the Scullfia animilating Godsáas tomans. we have to do is but to enquire, a. De re, how one thing is a carafe or other, means of another ; a. And fo how God Decreed . it to work and be. 410. And 1: Ít is agreed that thecreation was Gods firft work (that we know of or have anything to dowith:) This had (as co thefirftpart) no AntecedentObjeêt, but produceth its effect, which fome call its objeer. Bit the latter dayes works had an antecedent .objeêr, and alfo a pro- duced effeft. And accordingly God Decreed from Eternity that this fhould be his firft work. From whence by connotation that may be called, hisfirft Decree. 41 1. That fin or the Permifon of fin, orother meer negatives, are not to have place among the afferted Means and Decrees, I am anon in due place to manifeft. 412. ,á. God having made mah, did give him a Law both Natural and Pofitive í This was neat done, and therefore decreed to be next done. 4t3. 3. Man having broke this Law, God judged him, and laid otì him Come indifpenfible penalties.. This was decreed to be done in the third place. 414. 4. At the fame time God promifedMan. thevictory by the Wog plans Seed, and giving him pardon of thedeftruótive penalty; became his Redeemer, and put him under a Covenant of Grace; firft given to man- kind in Adam, and afterwards in Noah. And this was decreed to be fo done. 415. 5. Though all were thus put under thisCovenant, and God for- fook none that fitft forfook not him; yetdid hegive more Grace to fame,' than to others, to Abel,, e. g. than. to .calla, fo that thofe thatdid aétually repent and believe and live toGod, were juftified and adopted and made heirs of life. And thushe decreed todo. 416. 6. Perfeverance alto was the effeét of his fpecial Grace, phials accordingly is Decreed to be given. 417. 7u The Cainites, Canaanites and others that were the wicked Seed of wickedParents, who forfook him and his Grace, he accordingly judged, punifhed and forfook : And fo decreed. 418., 8, The Seed of the faithful 'he eminently bleffed, efpecially of Àbraham ; whomhe took (. byreward) into a further fpecial - Covenant, fuperadded to the common Covenant of Grace, taking his Seed into a pe- culiar political and gracious relation to him, promifing the multiplication and pro'perity of them, and that theSaviour fhould come outofthem : All which was fo decreed to be done. 419. 9. The Meffiah came in the fulnefs of time, and did and fuf-' feted all that is mentioned in the Gòfpel : And gave us a more'perfe2 Edition of the Covenant of Grace, and greater grace with it, even more of the Spirit, with a better Miniftry,Ordinanceb andChurchftare : Which were fo decreed tobe done.
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