Of Prédeginátion. cency, and to pardon Shi : And therefore (not Chrift's Death is felt, but ) God'sDecree of the Death of Chrift Incarnate, was the caufe'of the Promife, andof the New Covenant 'made with Adam, and of the SalvationofBelievers then. Which,Will or Decree is called by come the interpellation or undertaking of theeternal Word. A. But at leaft Sin fore-feen is caufafine qua non.; B. Call it by what name you pleafe, as long as you confers it to be noCaufe, (forcaufa fine qua non, is called Caufi fatua , and is none.) But it is not Sin which is Caufa fine qua non; for it is nofan from eter- nity. A. It is the futurity offn that isCaufafine qua non. B. Yet more notions! what. is futurity ?. any thing or nothing? no- thing certainly : For qtoad ens, it is ',terminus diminuens 5 and nothing is no caufe. But it is Gods knowledge that sin will be, which is to becal- led the coif; of Gods Decree, as fine qua non,. ifany be. , But I mutt deal moft aboutfuturition with theCalvini.11s,when I: come tofaveyou from Dr. TwiJ his Ferula. , A. I pray you thenopenme the matter as it is,your felt: B. I will makeyour Caufe better thanyou havemadeit ; But not by Predefinatio nihil panic makingother menswork, butbyopening the reconciling truth. t. I in predelfinato inquit (halltell you in what fenfe Gods Will and Decrees mayand mutt be faid Alum*" q'3 a z tohave an extrinfick 'caufe, without change inGod. 1. Know there- fore that Gods Effënce is hiswill, but not as.Egence... To fay that God is God, and that Go' dwilleth this or that, arenot terms of the fame figni- fication. 2. Gods Will is his Effènce denominatedfromTomeamiable good as the Objefi ; and fo there is ever quid..refpefíivum in the notionof Will. 3. As God millets himfelf, the Ad beingperfe&lyimmanent,. his Will is called himfif mush more properly, than his Will of things extrinfick (which is ever either efetlively, or at leali objectively train- fient ;) Becaufe it is God that zrilleth,and that is willedor loved, (which mademany Ancients fay, That this wasthe third Perlon inthe Trinity.) 4. But as God willeth things ad extra, thoughit is his Effence that fo willeththem ; yet it is unfit to fay limply, that this Will is God; e.g. that towill Peter's Salvation is God, becaufe the name Will here includeth the thingmilled. g. 'And thereforewhen we fpeakofGods Will inthe ûniverfal notion, as abfira&ed from all particularObjets,andAds, it is lefsinconvenient to fay limply, that this WillisGod, than when we fpeak ofhis Will in aEtad extra. By this time youmay fee,that though' * eilvare himfeif faith, Godswill, as his Effence, hath no taufe, yet his Will as, denominated ex that h altoany o e trinfecally from the Objeci, may haveforce kindof Caufe than. is* ob- jeltive condition or rea-jellive,which is quaffmateria afius, and the terminus.fine quo non.;: that is, fonof theMt. Gods Will is notdenominated a complacency in Chrif ' exentr oryinPeter :e This isali that sulk regenerate, * or his underflanding,. áfeeing thatIke. World was good, be- hisBeafons prove De vol. foreany,of thefe things didexits.. So that by ,extrinfick denomination, Dei dilp.nssea.4.p,toz Whofaith, that there is withoutany change in God, he mayand, fhould be faid denovo to know more than extrinfick things to be exiftent, to be paff, to will thingsasexiftent with compla- denomination; Et ra- cenc or will them. with dil licenc But not to will the futurity of do rationüeum realie or- ya malitas. But he dots mens damnationdenovo ; but yet his Will of thefuturityof mens dam- but modot that he his geoeth nation hath feveraldegrees of the Objective Gaufe, from whence it isde- not what to fay. nominated : As in,effecognito, theperfon whoisthe Objeet is inorderof . nature firfi a man, a fubjed, and thena Sinner, anda Defpifer of Mercy, and thena damnable Sinner. And fo thereare indeed conditions in the Objc 1, orCauje fine quibus non, or objeilive,matcrial- cnnftituentéaúfes s` not in themfelves, but the fore-fight of them; not ofGods Will as his Effince,
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