and Decrees of Cod, &c. iz " do i) and another not to pardon the Criminal, which is the defert of "fin. "Obj. t6. That this great part of the faithfuland holy, whit/; is fore- " decreed to eternal death, when they pray to God in the Lords prayer, "Let thywill be done, do only pray againfl themfelves,-viz. thatthey may "fall andbe ruined; becaufe it a the willof God that theyperifb by eter- `nal death. "Re. The Truth faith ndtthis, that it is the will of God that the "faithful and Saints do fall from faith and innocency and. perish. But "Truth faith, This is the will of the Father that fens me, that all that " hepathgiven me I should lofe none But ifby the generality "of Vocation, and the abundance of Gods goodnefs, even thofe that will " not perfevere are mixt with the perfevering, when thefe fall away from "Godlinefs, they fall not (or are not forfaken) of Gods help, but of " their own wills : nor are impelled to fall, nor call off that they may "forfàke; but yet are fore-known to fall away by Him that cannot be " deceived : And when they pray, Thywill be done, they pray not that "they may fall Which God will not do (or Cause) anyway, "by any means: For this by their own naughtiness, their own liberty {t will do : But this they pray against themselves, ( which doubtlefs is st Godswill) that whenthe Son ofman shah come in his Majesty, &c. - rcthey that will not do Gods will, and yet pray, Let thywill be done, are ' a heard in that which is Gods will, that theimttaters of theDevil be judg- ss ed with the Devil. For they that have defpifedGods inviting will, (hall " feel his revengingwill. SECT. XXII. The words of Fulgentius to the fame fence. 663. I Must crave ofthe Reader that he remember that my reciting the Judgement of thefe Fathers for the falling away and perifh- ing of many that were in a fiate of Life, is not at all as declaring my own judgement, but Theirs; be then thatI read ofthinkingotherwife *. Shall (for the End fake) yet a little more tedious in citing fome of the fayingsof Fulgentiuc. " Falk 1. r . de verit. prede 1. cap. 6. To good men. God giveth what " good they have, andkeeper it : But to the wicked and ungodly, God "neither ever could prepare or give evil works, which they should "damnably ferve: nor did he ever put into them evil Wills by which "they should culpably will things unjust ë but he prepared for them "the punifhinent of Hell, that they might feel revenging justice in "endlefs fire. An evil will is not of God : And therefore the just "Judge doth punifh it in men, becaufe the good Creator findeth not "in it the order of his Creation. And perfeverance and contumacy to in fin and pride, becaufe it is not ofGods giving, is condemned by God " revenging. "Et 1. r, ad Monint.t. z6. He will purtiflt in the wicked, that they "are bad, which he gave not, nor did he predeffinate them to any ini- "quit y : and that they willed unjustly was none of his gift. And be- "caufe the perfevering iniquity of an evil will, ought not to remain R "unpunifhed, "Except%viuiàntetruly áccufeedd by Hierome, the brevity and obfcurityof whole accufation and confutation, leaveth us very uncertain what it was that 3oyinian held. But weare lure that the 1pirit ofuncharitablenefs and contention (though in a good and learned man had no (Mall hand in the ftignatizing of him and Vigilantira at Hereticks.
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