Of Prede,í`#ination: - t I refer the Reader to 7. It is agreed that God knoweth notas man loth; byNames, Propofi-, Bin*, de concord. lib. tions, orSyllogifms 5 And yet that God knoweth all Names, Notions, Pro- cam decretos a. Tbef. u s po / tones and syllogifms, with their modes; as they are the ineaiùres, or- the. where by citing ans or aftin s of Humane Linderflandin s. 8. t It is therefore unde- their own words at g` g g large, he proverh that niable to all Chriftians, that thethingwhich they call * fciertia media, the moR famous and is as certain( in God, as is the dientia p g licit Intelli y f J entke `(.,,, Pure vi- were Antiarminiant for thisfeientia toms ; that is, [ that God knoweth the truth of all true conditional media conditionna, viz. Propofitions, and knoweth what would be done by luck and fuch Fr. Gamarrtos ('Armin- + y ea's chief Antagonift) caufes, or upon fuch and fuch alterations, if they were put]. Doth in Mat. r,. --at. An- anyChrifliandoubt ofthis ? g. Whether this fhould be called (cientia tonnes walæas loc. com. de ltitet. Dee, pag. , 6o. media is aqueftionde nomine, and that of no great importance, andnot Paulsen Ferrites Scholafi. at all dere ? .to. Whether it be ofany neceffity orufe in this Contro- Ortbths. p.zo3, 4o9' verlie is a ueflion onlyabout the order of argumentation, as long as seo. Betides Rab. Bare- s Biss Metaph. felt.ro.dilp.. the thing it 'elf is confeffed to be true. r r. Some that cafnier it as an hu áÿswas(tBari úfelefs Engine in this matter, dó go as far from you as the yefuites and to the Arminian, as ap, Arminianwho ufe it; As you may fee at large in Ludeev. d Dola, and peareth in shore meta- phyficks.) And Jo. Durandus himfelf. 12. I am one that fear Prefumption both in their Strang¡er,1. 3.c.13.p á75. and your diflributions of the Knowledge and Decrees pf God, and nameth alto Lad. cracies dread the taking of his Name in vain; And one that think that we Dyodecad át/ 7. neednot the notionof f ientia mediafor our fatisfatiory explication of a Could Alvarezand his therematters. But as the truthof the thing is confef%d, fo if it be ap- fellows well prove, the that lied onl tothe Doftrine of Reprobation as it is commonly called the permi(ìïon of P y first fin is an effect of and not (at leaf( always) totheDot-trine of Election, I fee no untruth Reprobation , as the that it inferreth nor no real difference that it will prove between word is ufed (in a fie l' andordinaryfenfe)they US. would do more to overthrow the Doariue de /cientiamedia circa mains, than is yet done. ant they fail in their at- `7"1e- jifh Crimïnition. tempts ofproving this : Of which after. C. They deny abfòlute Reprobation at leafi, and fay that God reprobateth no men, but uponfore-light offin Andfo that he hath no Decree that men fhall fin, nor that hewillpermit them tofin, nor that they(hall do the alp in particular which is fin: As if God had not decreed the hardening of Pharaohs heart, thefin ofSihon, of Rehoboam, of the Jews in killing Chr,&c.. B. r. I" told youbefore, Reprobation is aword that fignifieth feverat aöis : You dare not but grant them, that God decreeth or willeth to damn no man butfor fin, and as a Sinner : And this is thefame thing that they mean. 2. Ifby Reprobation youmean Gods Decree togive them no Faith or Repentance. a. You muff prove that God hath fuch aDecreeor Will, for ameer negation, where not-decreeing or not willingto give them Grace, will do asmuch. 2. All Chriftiansmuff needs confersthat God made a Covenant of Grace with fallen Mankind inAdam and Noah; And that noman is nowunder themeer Obligations of theLaw and Covenant of Innocency , which faith [Be perfe& and live, fin and die for ever]: And that there is Come common mercy extended to all the World, which obligeth them to repent inorder toSalvation. Re fubverteth Scripture, and all experience, that denieth this. Therefore all muff grant, that * Thus God denieth no fpecial Grace to any, but the abufers of this common Divines t Dorrtt,tinheir Grace. And he decreeth to do but what he doth. * Therefore the Puffrage on Ar. 3. at perlons whom he decreeth to deny fpecial. Gracé to, are nonebut the large. abufers of commonGrace, or the reje ters of that fpecial Grace, when offered. 3. If
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