38 Of Prèdegiriätion. liar finfulnefsin it felf diftin& from that of the Will. I have told you myOpinion of his tenet: But this is granted him, that no outward Adhath any finfulnefs, butfecondary and participative, as animated by theWill : and that fin is primarily inthe Will alone. Now in abundance of the ScriptureTexts alledgedbyDr. Twife and Rutherford, itis not the Will of theSinner that God is made theAuthor of, butfeeminglyof the All, (indeed of the Effe&.) Now God cannot be the caufe of any 'mans fin, unlefs hecaufe' the finfùlVolition. - But I have. anticipatedourDifputeof Providence in all this, becaufe it is hereufually handled as thematterdecreed. And therefore when we . comethither, you mull excufe me from repeating it, or pardonwhat you put me to do. The fixtb Crimination. "c. mynext offence-againß them is, that theymake Gods Will and De= *vaquet is t.Tho. dr¡p. 'tcrees conditional, andfo make God dependent uponman. 91. c. I. [conquoritnr an divine pradeßtna B. This is openedin theSecond Book. * Indeed theydiffer not from tissis dour carafe ? 5I. the no sy di s (or Dr. Twi e himfelf,i think, in this. That r. is; The non eff de attu divine ( y voluntatis,quatenws it ip- hold that God bathmade conditional Donatidns; Promifes and Threat- /. epentia divina, dr res pings in his Word. 2. And that-God may truly be Paid to Will and :striate: fc natant ¡cbo- Decreehis. own Word, and all that is in it, with its conditional mode. lalbici omnes elarum e- o sim eft divine predelfi 3. And as Aquinas and Twife, andall fay, Deus volt, hoc of propter hoc; cam ps elt dee$ettibuo.f dpan hoc wilt efe, propter hoc. Gods Will doth not dependon the Con- 4 pertnde el gnærere tau-dition:; but Gods Will is; that the . Eifel or Event (ball depend on the Pat prædetltnatonts ex Condition. When the-Conditionslis performed, it is not a medium of parte noitra, atq; cas¡am aliquot toasts efeatis Gods Volition, but of the Effect. 4. But yet this all mutt confefs, that prædeßtnationis in nobu as to thebare extrinfick denomination from theObject, asGods Will is lie annmera ttNu m n varioufly denominated from thingspall, P re l nt and future, fo it may be q,idpiatn postrar efe from abfolute and conditional Grants and Premifee : which you will not dully ne- deny but God hath made. And in cafe of fin and damnation, fin quit illndulla raaone e¡¡e 5'. f casta taiga egettua. - -snfore-feen is an objective condition, difpofition or qualification fine qua flea, ,.- rp¡a.el'entia Dei. non,' of fuch as Gods nelle damnare is immediately terminated on (as z. Re¡peitus rationis ad res cogttaset politer: Ric they confefs at the Synod at Dort, and Molinæus there openeth in his na¡citar ex objeúu : Ejes 'ud mint at large.) igirur poilant elle sofa. I " C. But this decreeing uponfore-fight of fomewhat in man, ma'keth God L0 to follow theCreature, anddependupon it. B. It makethhim no waydependant at all : For the Creature neither caufeth any Ad ofGod, nor hindreth him from any thing which he would do. It is his own Will that this fhallbe the Order. Butas tit, Gods Ads or Volitions following mans, s. Theyno way followmans but as Objects g which Objects intheir natures and qualifications, relatively ter- minate , or by connotation denominate Gods Volitions. 2. And do you or any man deny that? Doth not Gods Knowledge Pr5eteritorum CExiflentium fuppofe the preteritionor exJence ofObjects. Dothnot Gods complacentialVolitionof theholinefs and gloryof his Creatures, prefuppofe that holinefs and glory ? Doth not Gods hatred of pat} or exiftent fin prefuppofe it? " C. But what can God inman, till hefirfi decree to caufe it, orat " hail decree that it(hall exi ? B. Sin: Hedecreeth neither, and yet fore-feeth it, (ofwhich, lib.t.) The
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