Of rnredeFtinatiöi. I_ The third Crimination: A. III. You makeGod neceflitatemens fin and damnation by your negative decrees, as well as other's by their pofitive: For you hold; That noman can believe and repent,, but fuck as God decreeth to give Faithand Repentance to And no man can doany more good thanGod decreeth that hefhall do. And fome fay that God decreeth, Not to give men any more Grace than he giveth them ( which is a Decree ob- jectively negative de non dando) 9 And you and others fay, That he doth not Decree togive them more And foas a lion is not culpablefor not flying, nomore are Sinners; not eleted, for notbelieving and obey= ing God * Note what Vajgsie; B. You wholly t$iffakeänd, mifreportus. If we differ from you,- itgranted] pi9z. ho q..3, isby goingfurther fromthe matter of the Obje6tion than youdo your txm.eft praileRinatiànem felves. edam, e' ipfampriman I. Wehold, that Godgivethmany men power to domore than they ñon effe iñ à/tra pote/ta¡e, do : And confequently that he decreeth to give it them. Men do not %scut i pr eaepinar:oni: doall that theycando. Indeed wehold,That noman candó any thing, & /iasg nia fo elmz . which God doth notgive himpower to do, and decree to give it him. nóbit pratidere. And dareany ofyofi deny this. 'There h. nopower but ofGod. 2. I holdnot, that God hath any Will orDecree in proper fenfe, Not togiveGrace, not to give Faith, not to giveRepentance, Help; Means, &c. But only that he doth not decree togive it where he . giveth it not indeed; Butas Lombardafore-cited, faith, He neitherWilleth;nor Nillette Alain. de Repxb. a.,3 it. My Reafons are, I. Only Good is the Obje& of GodsWill . and DPI. jxbtranieaibtd Evil of his Nolition. But nothing is not Good , nor Faith, Repen- dee' oten zdie rbgaód tance, be. nor Grace, evil : Therefore God doth mit will nothing; or pod reprebatxa nan poteit rillthe faidgood: gratraio adopifti non ell 2. iroffra fit per plura, &c. It is prefumptuous to feign needlefs `p b,¡i m ñeab¡óyá,r Decrees and Volitions in God : But the Decree of nothing (of not (ed tagditiene:am. giving Grace ) is vain : Fornothing will be nothing, withoutany De- creeor Volitionof God, aswell as without any efficiency. If Godnei- ther make, normill more Worlds, more Sons, more Men, therewill be no more, thoughhe have no Will orpofitive Decree that there /ball beno more.. 3.Nomanknoweth where to bound the Doecrine ofDecreesdenihilo; And to makethem infinite or boundlefs, foundeth fo prefitmptoufly and profanely; that common reafon doth difclaim it. hispofïiblethatthere be as many more Bands; pebbles,ftraws, be. made as are : It is poflìble to make every ¡tone;-orfand, an Animal, or the choice ofa thoufand other things: It's:poflible to give each man and Creature the choice of a thoufand other names, places, circumftances: And mutt we feign in God a pofitiveWill or Decree of every oneof there poffiblesthat they rd rb:, ad jeexndxx, (hall neverbe ? That this Sand thannot be a Man, nor that Bird a Stone, dePinatee ei1 taxi er ciao 6c. It is enoughto conceive that Gods infinite Wifdoin knowethwhat . pod expettatxr in (*xixra is fitteft to l e,and that all that he inilleth shall be ; and that . he willeth no çiótær qóá°vre more; and therefore nó more Creatures, will be. But he willeth tbCrprtur in prefenti, give power to free Agents, to dó or not docertain a&sin 'Pule ; and Goyeft61,44persrod è 1 veto therefore they can domore than he decreeth they jball do in praJenF); [c i tatpe, 2. And as to the necefity of mens fin or mifery, you layas much of m,(1,Ratameúrtanja eiaSa it uponGod as we; that is, no caufalnecefrity at all, (as rob. Baroniut xod redditùr in fgntro, diltinguifhethit well inhis Melaphyfic%,i.) Toomiittall the Diftinítionoss e'i.pænaeterne<
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