42 Of Predegination: C. " I know forte fay, It is the objeEtive Lufter, or Demonftration of s If any man will fay, " Gods Perfe&ions: Take that if it pleafeyou better. that tobe generated,and to proceed in the record B. That Luther or Demonftratíon objettive is a Creature : And can a and third perrons , are Creature:be Gods Ultimate End ? prefts , i account ro en er is C. " No : Godwho is the innin $ g Be it the End alone. eCutnppdon m- to a difpu e of it :' But B. God is noefficient Beginning of himfelfor any thing in himfelf:. it's certain, that nothing For inGod there is no,Caufeor Efecis how then can hebe his own End in God is effeLted by a a Creature, nor his Ef- or final Caufe ? x fence by himfelf. C. " He is neither Beginning nor End, efficient nor final Caufe of him- tBarnes's order is thut,t. "felf g but of his Works or Creatures only. qn;.az.pag.x66. [Ades B. Therefore not of his Volitions, or Decrees which are himfelf, nor gout fibs poQumus swage- of any of hisA&ionsmeerly as Agent's 5 becáirfe they are himfelf: but nari ere ier manic divena tam communes quasi pro- as they are in the effects. But how canGod be the Creatures end ? The pia; circa predsfiraatos Creature is no means , either that Godbe God, or that he be perfeft, or opines hominesn po/binles; that be be glorious' in himfelf,, or that he. be juft or merciful : It is the ex quibus qua/dam dilexit higher: blafphemy to'fay it. quantum errs: ex C. " ronknowall our Divines a That Gods end in decreeing is the has vo[ott crease: qai- f,}, $ a bus adbocquofdam dilexit " Gloryof his Mercy in the Salvation of the Elea, and of his7uflice in the ¢d foram "'""t""1"4 "'--damnation of the Reprobate. qua divineelelliodicitor; patents n er 1ór quoi cre- B. Here area multitudeof Errorsor Ineptitudes together. i . That fibi; èr denig; bar elector thename of the means ( Salvation and Damnation ) is put into the end. predeftinavit; bac elt;pra- 2. That one little parcel of the meansonly is put, as ifit were the whole. vide:&ordinavtt ut per If we mutt (peakfolow, as to afcribe an Endto God, we muff fay, that quidam media lupernatu- rdtecer e eaeiter perenS. Ultimately hehath but one : And that one mull needs be more than the rent in from fopernatura- glory ofhisMercyand Vice towards man. Is all thereft ofthe world Ion]. That nothing but God Angelsand Men, Heaven and Earth, and Chrift himfelf, no means in himfelf can be the ob- which he will be glorified? 3. That quid creatum is made Gods Viti- iéLïnm fórmale of Gods mateEnd : For thisGlory of' his MercyandVice is noother, but a crea Voliuon,feefttú deYol. y y , Det dtfp.I5.feti.6, p.. 165. fed demonflration or apprehenfonof it. 4. And why are Mercy antfyu- Rok z4. prtenseh :tó..Ìäce only named, as though thegloryof his. Power, Wifdomand Good- more accuratenefs than nefs it felf were here no part ? others in ordering Gods C. " Ifyou like none of this, tellmeyour ownfeof of it. Decrees, and other Afts. Denying with others all B. r..1 fuppofe that Intendere lii"nem is fpoken of God onlyin a tran- real dittintiion,butaffer- fcendent retire andnot at all as it is of man. And, 2. I fuppofe that äm á aióem r atióeiina- Gods Beingbathno Beginningor End, nor any thing inhim. 3. I fup- tam,andwould perfwade pore that Gods Free-will, by communication ofEffence, and of PerfeEti- us that he knoweth what that is (what the rondo- ons, is the Originalfree Caufe of all things. He neceflarily is what he is : menton in re is) he refit- but hefreely madewhat he made. 4. Therefore I fuppofe that the fame test many others opini- ons de ratioardrnu (NoWill which is the Beginningof all, is the End ofall: So that Gods Will tina's noire z , zumel , as efficient is theBeginning, andGods Will as fulfilled andpleafed is the Dorados;, ndefpe islh endof all his Works. s. This may be called finis Dei improperly after (feit.g)that interdivinas the manner of men, but tollerablyandwith the leaft impropriety, and operartones erdo preavis ea fuch as we muff tire. 6. This is more properly the commanded and nolterrbris ex eo eß, good urns at tofsérequifsews ad appointed endof the Intelle&ual Creature, and analogically the end atinm,velft,alterius Tatra that all things tend to. 7. God is neverwithout his end : For his Will is vel conditia c He Con- feed: all chafe to, be ever fulfilled and pleated For pro hic & runt he willeth nothing but fiaious,and that there is what is. 8. But there are degreesof P'erfeftion in Gods Works, and no real diverfity, ( and difii. r t. feel. r. on the qu An in Deo fit proprie libera Valitioefficax) ditit (Allies animen tranquilly pace pie[tit falutionibus doe u[q; inventen, nee alto le facts!aciffe priest, qui nor frbi fatisfecsrit.) Yet agaiml &giant he would have there fiftions thought to be of very great ufe: when as all his prophane tremendous prefumptions are but enquiring after a caufe of the firft caufe, under the name of Ratio vel conditio, while hedenieth that indeed there is any caufe. Their queflion is, why Gods Will is terminated on this Objeft ratherthan on that ? And is not this to ask a caufe of it (of the firft caufe) ; fay but that Deus volition nnica wilt-di- verla diverlmodc ordinata, and you have raid enough ?. iiad they meant only the Ratio receptiva increatis, ex ratio conlllituteva allionum divinarem ut in eg'eoie vel pap do sit extrinfeeurdenomrratarum,ic hadbeen fence. But in God himfelf there is diverfitas variorum volendi. the
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