44 Of Predegination. C. "Hon wouldyou then denonrinatively order the Decrees according to "theorder of Intention ? B. According toDr.Twiffe's own rule and method, All that you can by that Order infer, is but this, that the infinite Creator firft intended thepleafingand fulfillingofhis own Free-will as his Ultimate end, and next decreed to produce all things as he produceth them to that end, and fo is pleafed in all things in their proper time and place ; but furtherto bring all this Univerfe finally to perfe&ion, and in that per- fe&ionhis Glory or Image thall be perfe&, in which he will finally be pleafed : And the glorificationof man is a little part of that Perfe&ion. And what will thisdo to the promotingof your Opinions ? But I further aft you, Is it not certain that God decreed to make all things in theOrder in which he maketh them in time? C. "Ter : Ifyou (peak of the Order of Execution. B. And is not thisOrder of Execution needfultobe obferved ? C. " res, no doubt. B. And is not this Order of Execution eafier tobe underftood ? C. " Ter ; forwe are little difagreed about it. B. If thenthisOrder be plain, and fure, and needful, and that which weare all agreed in ; and your Order of Intention be either none, or uncertain, and part the reach ofmortal man, judge yòu what Order we fhould treatof, and who are the wife and peaceable men? C. " Tet theschool-menbefore ns have treatedof thatOrder. B. Davenant tells you, That snowswas the firft Artificer of that In- vention. Whether that befo or not, it's fure that youufe to declaim againft the School-mens prophane curiofity and audacity : And where ( except about the Trinity) hath it been greater than in this? And you knowthat few of them that giveyou theordinemfgnorum, as they call it, doagree in the fame Order ; (As I have Chewed in Come inftances,li6. a.) And ifyou will condemn your felves in condemning them, why fhouíd we think that you have hit of the right Order any more than they ? We have feenseals,Gilbie's, Perkin's, and we have feen 7wifje's (much better,) andwe havefeen the Lutherans and the Arminians, and we fee little agreement. Do you think that the Synodof Dort, that leaveth out fuch things, was not as wifeas any ofyou all ? Or was not Davenant asjudicious asany ofyou in thefe Controverfies, whoopenly and largely profeffeth, that he is notone of thofe Privy-Counfellors of God, who know in what Order things lie in his Mind, and can affign each A&its properplace ; but he thinketh this Order ofmental Intenti- on in God to beutterlyunfearchable, and the Order ofExecutiononly fit forus to treatof. See his Differt. dePredefi. The
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