Of Redemption. B. Do younotperceive that hereyou divert to the Controverfies of theDecrees, andof effettual Grace ? Of the firft we have faid enough already : of the other after in due place. * Epifcop.Inait.Tbeol.l.q. lea. g. cap.6. Cerium aft pefsto decreto conditionato ewes at f,ngulos qui vet ad vitam elecîi font, net ad mortem reprobate, rate ab eterno predeftinatos diet poYe debere. The fixth Crimination. C. " They feign Chrift topurchafe only a conditional Pardon, yuflificati- " onand salvation, andfo to leave it uncertain to the corrupt Will ofman, "whether any (hall befaved or not. B. This alfo concerneth theDecrees, and is fully anfwered before. r. That Chrift hath purchafed, and God givena conditional A&of Ob- livion, or Pardonand Life to all, is the very Gofpel it fell, and to be queftioned by noBelievers. 2. None of them all do fuppofeChrift to die at uncertaintiesas tothe fuccefs: for they fuppofe that he fore-knew the fuccefs from eternity. 3. They fuppofe not that the fuccefs was undecreed : For they that prefuppofe fore-fight ofmans concurrence, yet affert an * eternal Decree of his Converfion upon fuch fore-fight. And it is not on the fore-fight of Faith, that they fay God decreeth to give menFaith ; but on fore-fight that the will of theSinner will con- cur or not obftinately refit theSpirit that is drawing him to believe. And theyefuites and Arminian by theirscientia mediado holdGod- to be the chief caufe of mensbelieving : For they fay, That God fore- feeing that man will believe if he have fucha meafure of help, and fuch means and circumftances, Both freely decree to give him that helpof the Spirit, and thofemeans bywhich he knoweth it will be done. So that here is no uncertainty,but different thoughts of the afcertaining decrees andways. 4. And lib. r. I have (hewedyou,that notonly theSchool- men, but Bellarmine, Ruiz, suarev, and many of the moft famous 1efuites, do affert effettual Grace, to be fuch both ex eta/instate operan- tis, and ex vi operationis, abfolutely. And where then is this feigned difference ? a Vafq. in t.Tbom. q a3. a. 8. difp94 .e.a. Paran- tiqua Tbeologerom fenten- tia quam ego Catbolicam exiftimo eft , non Plum Cbriftam :obis meritum at a Deediligeremur,& pre -. de(tinaremur per grattam tiles ad glorian; fed edam ;it eligeremur ex m4fa per- ditionis eledbione gran Pg. Note that he fpeai- eth only of theef{eli of Gods Decree ; and fo it is all one as to fay, that differencing Grace is merited by Chrift : which is that which you would have. The feventh Crimination. C. " They male Chrifl to do no morefor Peter than for Judas 5 for thof " inHeaven thanfor thole inHell, while they fay that he died equallyfor " all. B. * Equality here is meant either of his Intention, or of the benefits given : Thofe benefits are of feveral forts. r. No doubt but they err, whofeign God equally to decree, and Chrift to intend, the eventual abfolute Salvation of all. 2. And they err that fay, that he beftoweth equal benefits on all, even inthis life : yea, antece- dently tomans Will. But theNew Covenant or conditional Promife, doth equally, as to the tenor of it, givePardon and Right toLife, to all. But who is it that holdeth this equality of Intention or Benefit? Not the greater part oftheSchool -men, or other Papifts,no not the learnedit 7efuites. Not the LutheranChurches; But fome fewArminian that run into one extream, asyou do into theother. Nay, how can they hold an equality of Intention, when they confefs, that upon e-
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