Of Predeffination. 3. If byReprobation, youmeanGods Will or Decree to permit them to finand perifhwillfully ; r. You can prove no fuch Decree orWill : Becaufe permionbeing anegationor nothing, needs it not, but will be as certainly without it, upon a bare not decreeing to hinder them from fin. 2. Andyoumiftake in faying that Arminiti' denieth it : For he * faith *Rrmini:ishimfelfex- with you, That God decreeth his ownpermiffion. 3. Youmutt take the r a God yermits oar pains to diftinguifh between negative and privative unbelief, and be- man vale peccaexm, ne- tweennegative andprivative not-hindring Sin, or not-giving Faith. Ne- gativeUnbelief is meer not-believing: And fo noneofus did believe from ad volendam : Eram. eternity, or before we were born : He that is not, believeth not; nor perk. pag.ts ;Dr.7-wiffe yet in the firft inftant that the Promife and Law ofFaithwas given us. agamRHOardli.r.pag.yo. Our unbelief is not fin, or privative, but on fuppofition that we aremen and have reafon, and have a Lawand Object of Faith. And Gods per- mittingus in this negativeNon-belief is not to be called aprivative, but only anegativepermillion. For God did from eternity fo permit me to benoman, and noBeliever, and yetthis was not Reprobation. So God did negativelynot hinder Adams firft fin, but not privatively; becaufe not penally for any evil done, nor yet by denyinghim any thing that was naturallyor morallyhis due:Thereforethis was not anAecofReprobation. But when the New Covenant of Grace, and the commonGrace of the Covenant are once given men, and they are obliged to believe, then fometimes Godpenallydenieth them Grace, and that is all which the Ar- minian: put againft abfolute denial, becaufe this denial is only for mens fore-going fin. But he alfo (till negatively only, andnot privativelyor penally deniethfameGrace to Come, yea to all ; And that is only fuch I Though fin be ac Grace as is neither morally their due, nor naturally due or neceffary to knowledged to be the them. And the denial of fuch is no A&ofReprobation. caufe of theWill of God inr Reprobation 4. ifby Reprobation you meanmeerly Gods Preterition ; that is, his gaoodresvolitay that is, not-willingor not-decreeingto give menGrace. a. Not toWill or De- in refpea of the pundit- cree, is nothing; Andhow canyou call nothing abfolute or conditional ? his lreedt bhe Thefe are the modesofAlts,andnot ofnot-acting, or ofnothing. All grant abfolutenefs of repro- that Gods non- agency,non-volition,not-decreeing hathno caufe, much lefs a ,h,pt Bbanq ead eo caufe in man, leaft of all in man when he is noman. unlefs we underfana 5. The word Condition, either ref að r. The thing or event the Fathers thus; we willed s p g muf charge them with ; 2. Or the Will as relatively denominated with refpe& to that anopinion, whichütui- event ; 3. Or that Will radically confider'd in it felf. I opened this nas is bold to profefs that never any man was before, but think of itagain ; for the reafonof the diftinftion is very fo mad as to afñrmérre.] plain. And, r. God damneth nomanbutfor fin, ( nor privatively de- rwiffe againft Hoord,li.r. nieth any necefiary Grace, but for fin.) Therefore the event no doubt rill. The eGeos repro is before-hand conditional; that is, dependeth on a condition: God bans as realmyftftydi(tin decreeth to damn them if they live and die' impenitently, andnot elfe. sir gh GcIt, ifence. 2. TheAl ofGods Will asdenominated from the faid Effel or Obje&And who faith that. fin particularly , may be called, A conditional All or Will. But if any caAnd he s El eof Re thinkotherwife it is but de nomine. 3. The radical effential Will or probation, a it is faid Alt ofGod as inhimfelf can have no caufe or condition. * Dr. Twiffe to be a Decree not to give Faith or Grace is deniethnoneof this. nothing : and therefore 6.That Godwillethordecreeth not finformally,all the Chriftian world that nothing cannot apt- almoft confefs. And what lovelinefs is there in that only odious thing, tally denominaa Gods that fhould tempt good people tofather it on God, or attribute the be- Will or Elïencen asan ing of it to his Will, or to be zealous Reproachers of thofe that fay a air agreemenht ? re then otherwife ? Bai>,. depredef.d.g.p.,5o. '7. And if God will and decree the A¬ only as an Aft in general, é 7e omm da nquantu5 butt with all its modes and circumfiances, he undeniably willeth orde- adperminnom precari y Creeth theformoffin, or the immediate neceffary caufeof it ; which in nabs, predrfinuas fait re- the cafe ofefficiency will moreevidently appear. C.God poborase sumeros.
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