Predegintttione 15 4. Do not you your felf fay,: i. That God doth glorifie his Juftíce in thedamnation ofthe Wicked ? 2: And that he willed from eternity fo to do? 3. And that he fore-knewWhowouldbe wicked ? q.. And that he could have cured and faved them if he would ? 5. And than he had no abfolute Will or Decree eventually or effe&ually to cure and fave them, but only in tantum, todo fo much towards it, which he knewwould be uneffe&ual through their fault ? 6. And that there-' fore the Decree of damnation, upon this fore- fight, did palsupon the individuals,and not only onthe Wicked and Impenitentingeneral-? All this you hold, and mutt hold ; andwhat hold we more ? 5. For as to the order ofGods Decrees , we further hold as foI- loweth I. That though when there is need, wemuff diftinguifh them by their Effe&s and Obje&s; yet we dread the prefumption of feigning thofe Orders in theMind of God, which we know notof, and cannot prove. He had need to be better acquainted with the Divine Ads, that (hall venture to tell us in what orderthey lie in theMind of God, thanMor- tals are, except whereGod hath p lain¡ toldus. * vafgne>srin i. xbo. q.23. 2. We hold, that God doth intendere Pent, or eligere media ú93 d`íg;qf. thereto, in the fenfe as man doth; becaufe he wanteth nothing, and dinepiof1otogáationnao . therefore doth not velledefideratum, norfeel any thingwhich he want- dente, difponet: rn pemo eth. But that improperlyGod is Paid to intend an end, when he doth neum fepf"m interex,¡¡e, but willto produce an effes, or elfeRill perfeí1ly enjoyeth that which is 1les eeawre,,u nnrt,o improperly calledHis end. And inthe firft Cafe, everyCreature is his qnò¡dam ad glariam end; that is, the terminus or effe& of his operation. And in the Iranian, t algae vet other fenfe, He himfelf only is his own end ; that is, the complacency fe babniffe oeegatiae: in ofhis own Will. quarto virile cos cafaros 3. Therefore to undertake todelineate the Order of Gods Volition 'p ov=di, epiltisteentediumto' or Decrees, according to the way of mental intention de fine & percbripi paffieeèm, see. mediis , isa workunfit for us to meddle with, as being beyond. our reach. 4. But ihofe that will needs meddle that way, can gono fiirther than to fay, That God is hisown end, (or the fulfilling or complacency of his Will) and therefore that God firft willeth the complacency of his own Will,and thenwilleth all Creatures as themeans thereto. And what is thisto anyofour Controverfies?For the glorifyingofhisJuftice,isbut themeans of thecomplacencyofhisWill.Or ifyouwill fay,that his Glo- ry is his end,it is no created thing that you mutt mean by his Glory. For nothing created can be Gods Ultimate End. Or ifyou could prove that sebolalticiorees náó acreated Glor` were Gods Ultimate End that is, the appearance or to"n`xirem ca"lam re- y r PP falemDiainæ voluntatis refulgenceofhisImageor Likenefs on theCreature : yet youmuff con- gaffe a gnari, neto felum , felt, that it is the Glory of God in his Conjun& Perfe&ions, Power, earietem d eaim%d"t Wifdom, Goodnefs, and that the Glory of hisPunitive Jufticemuttbe compirtum eft)fed neq firta. either taken as a means to that; or elfe that Godbathhis Endcontinual- lem nen ¡alum enter obietéa creata fed nee foam boni- ly inthe Glory which is upon every Creature, and every manand a&of rdiem, varq.t. 1no.ga 9. man. d. a=. c. t. ( But by 5. Though Dr. 7wiffe fo frequently inculcate, food prism eft Paten- nath noetaufasform r s is, tione, poieriuweft executioner he faith, that it is but de fine & mediis, notbi "g) But cop. z. he andnot de medüs interfe and that no medium is properly Gods End ow ntameth that Gods p P y own goodnefs (only) is ( and then nothing buthimfeif is his End ) ; and heglorieth as. thedif his Ratio tiolendt,¡ed toes Coverer of this Truth, that all the means are one to God, and therefore cbY(a',.e fhi il eld air°. d. have butone Decree ; fo that he reducethall Gods Decrees to two, I. Of q ;. Gabri.n. ig.q. hisGlory as his End: a. Ofall' the means thereto as ore. Ltried. de concord.a.p.eap. 6. And 4 ado.
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