68 Ofthe .91(atttre, Knowledge, Will Leg. Doyen. Difjert. de Præd. da8eprobat. copiofe hoc probantem. Et Emmet Difpat, 5.4.5 P. 335 & faq. à5 objeRo cleft. pag. 367, &O. SoAlbertinabefore cited. soot. r. d. 47. Vid. Signa Mayranis en fine. Againft Scotus his foun- dation, that God know- eth future contingents only et Yolita, faith Al- liacen t.q.it.N.[Sed irta ycapeftio: non eft inuliigi- . bila, i. i 1a talla in- jtantia & prioritatem & pofterioritatem erte in Deo nap eft 'verso.- 2. .pire impoQïbile eft quod pro aii- qua andanti talis comple- alo future fit neutra: Alias pro umc daretur medium in c,ntradiítìone. g.Lpoia putt atiquid effe median' éa rationem cog- . nrftendi in Divino intel- lifter. ] Lan,bard. t. d. 47. and Dirtenant of late , with many more have (hewed , that Cod pre - deflinateth mentoFaith,and.perfevcrance,andtoGlory,and not only toGlo- ry upon the forefight of faith andperfeverance : But that hep: edeilinateth or decreethmento damnation, only on the forefight of final 'impenitence and infidelity, but notto Impenitence orInfidelity it Pelf. 463. TheGrand difficulty that occafioneth all our Controverfies here- in is, How todircernthat God is the Author of all our Good, and yet not the Author ofSin, nor of DamnationCaving for fin. And both parties are very defirous to hold and fee that both .thefe are true : Nay, both believe them: But they-differ only in the way and method of manifefl- ing it. 464. There are three opinions about Reprobation : r. One is, that Cod Pofitively decreed from eternity- to glorifie his Juftice in thedamnationOf the moll, and to that endto occafion and permit their hardning and unbe- lief : fo that Reprobation is Pofitive both as to the .&i and Objelr, 2. The other is the opinionof the Synod of Dort' ( as expreffed ) defended at large by revenant and many others, that Reprobation is Gods Pofitive Decree hot to give faith and and repentance to the fame men; and to damn them for impenitence and infidelity : and fo is Pofitive quoad Ac ura, but Negative quoad Objellum, ( as to the 6rí1part, not giving faith.) 3. The third is the Opinion of fubtile scans and his followers, that in primo infranti Reprobationis Negative quoad Aclom &.Objettum; ,that is, It is no Aft of God at all, but only a Non- eleftion or preterition: which is I fuppofe the meaning ofDr. sterne of Dublin Coeledge, who bathwritten a Latin Trattate maintaining that God Reprobateth none, that is, by anyAd. 465. Themethod laid downbyScotus is this, [OffertoerVoluntatifax huntpeccaturum vetpeccare : Primo voluntas ejos circa ho no non habet Belle: Velle enim ip(uni habere peccatum- non poteji. a. Potefr intelligere Voloentatem fkam non volentem hoc : cr tune potefr melle Volunta- tem Juam non velle hoc : & ita dicitur Volens fnere , & vó- luntarie perntittere: (cut ex alia parte prafentatofibi zuda, primoDetes habet non Belle fbi Gloriara, t. non primo Nolte & potefr tune fecundo- refleclere piper /Item negationem doua j. Ville eam :. & ita Vo- lens fivevolontarie nondigit zudamflnaliter peccaturum, & non nolïtionem Gloria, fednon-volitionemgloria. 466. It is notable that bothDr. rwiffeand BifhopDavenant, do dif- claim this opinion. ofScotus without offering us any one argument againui it ; which is fo unùfual acourfe with one of them, as would perfwade one to think that they had not much to fay againfl it, but -( what they inti- mate) the harfh foundofthe words,that God fhouldbe .here a non agent. 46y. The truth feemeth to me, that as Davenant faith, scones.was the fill attifes of this orderingof various Ads in the mindofGod : So here he faith too much, and is too bold, and feigneth a fübfequent volition of a former non- volition without caufe or proof, meerly to fcape the cenIure which yet he now incurreth, of making God too littlealive. 468. So farwas scorns frombeing the firft Author of this Opinion, of ä Negatio volendi peccatum in God, that their common Mailer Lombard Mott exprefly affèrteth it, and that more plainly and foundly than there over- fubtile men. Upon which his Commentators copioufly difpute An in. Deo pelt effe pura omillio abfque volitiane er nolitione pofitiva ? of which betides the scetifrs andNominal:, you may fee Aquin. 26. a. a. Du- rand. í.d.47. q. o. Ruiz de`valiant. difp. 8. fctí.3. concl. 2. Albertin. To, i. princip.4. q.4. dot,. 2.Yajgoeez z, P. I. AV). 79. nom, i7, C"c. _. olareo
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