and Decrees ofgod, &c 127 SECT. XXIV. On the other fide. 48r. ON the other fide read but Suarez andRuiz tó fave me trail fcribing, and fee what they grant (betides that Ariminenf. and many oldSchoolmengo as far as theSynodills, as theDominicans do much further.) Petr. à S. 7ofeph. Suay. Concord. writing for Scientia Media; fummeth up the difference between them and the Thomis ( that is, the Armenians and calvinifls) fobriefly as is worth the reading : In which he granteth, " I. [ThatGod from eternity antecedently to any abfolute forefg':t of cC merits (or preparation in us ) did freely andof meer mercy eleét all thofe " to Glory that are faved: ] But denyeth [that God antecedently to the cm abfolute foreìghtof fin ; did abfolutely decree to exclude any from d glory, or roaddio them to eternal punishment : or. that the Creation of ".Reprobates, and all natural or fupernatural good conferred on them, are a the effeét of reprobation. . K i. He granteth that [,theDecree ofPredeftination is certain and im- Cc movable inthree refpem s : I. In thatjuft fomany (hall certainly be faved cc as God bath predeftinated. z: In that the fame fpecies ,of men (hall be "laved whom God predeftinated to glory : fo that both materially 'rand formally, the number of the predeftinate is certain. _ 3. In that by eC the force of Predeftination, anteceding. all Merits*, yea, and Caufing them, God givechto the predeftinate, effectual helps of grace, by which «they (ball infallibly come toglory. ]. And,is not here a fair conceffion for peke e . Arid.must not the remain- ing differences be only a. About words, z. Or unfearchable Orders of Gods Decrees and Modes ofoperation e Read him further, and fee. 68z. Dion. Petavius the Jefuite is too large tò tranfcribe. vol. I. Theol. Dogrn. lib. 9. of Predeftination is worth the reading; efpecially to know what the Fathersheld of GodsDeertes who enerall agreed that God which hee largely thew; y g , ein their ownwords ; decreed none to l-Iell, but upon forefght of their own fin. Though he better than any thatever himfelf doth furioufly rail at Calvin, and Arriyraldus, yet he fo far ac- IRefaalrainndugayiatter tin quitteth all other calvinifis fave Bezel andPifcator, and a few thát he cal- the inveftigation of the leth meer fools, that he faith, They have all förfaken his opinion, and fente of the äntients inflanceth in thewhole Synod ofDort, who he faith defert him: Andhe herein. profeffeth that Auguffines judgement may fafely be held, which is it in- deed, that thole now called Calvin r own, except in the point of perfe- veranee. See his lib. Io, c. I. &9, r6, CI: But what a plague, livor and faction is to the Chúrch and the owners fouls, let but thefe ugly words of his bewitnefs, :lib. 10. [` cap. I 4.p. y 28. Calvinus nacentom sadism, innocentesornnes damnari latit When Jie had made Amyrald an impudent lyer, for proving Calvin to think otherwife. b take heed of the fpirit of a Sect. 683. Suarez de Auxil. 1. 3. cap. 6. about fufficient and ef1b fual grace; Seeb zasof ecrnng th ,(into which all the other controverfiesfall,)confeflèch that [Sufficient grace- larifte and ware; de is that prod fates ell ad efficiendum fupernaturalem acgum, quod tamer Grarta efficaci. Part 34 non tacit, non ex infufcientia auxilii, fed ex'libertate Voluntaria: But pag.50,51' & cffef ual grace is called fuch not only ab eventu effeclu, fed etiam quia vires prabct efficàcijmas voluntáti fngularem vim hàbet ad agendum.] *That is,Rewardalrleaft* of fnan.
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