I 08 Of Free will. snoregood and lefs evil than they do. And therefore the Synodof Dort rejefteth your accufation as a calumny. And men Ihould know their own minds belt. 3. If by [ Cannot] you mean only a logical impof i- bility that there two Propotitionsbe both true [ yudas will believe and be faved] or [ Herod will not be eaten with Worms. ] And [ God decreeth that judos (hall not be faved] and [ that HerodThall be eaten by Worms] I confefs your charge; and fay that tirminius faith the fameupon the fuppofrtionofGods fore-knowledge. And how areyou concerned to proveGod tobe either fallible in his fore- knowledge, falfe inhis Preditlions, or mutable in his Purpofer. By this rule all Prophefies take away mens power, and make it impoflible to do the contrary. But you mdtake : For they a ffert mans power : He thatfore-knowethand fore - telleth that judos will abufe his power, and decreeth to damnhimon- . ly for abiding his power, doth imply that he bath fuch power- --. But Ergo.] Egid. Col..t;odl.ì.q.= H. Beverovicius ( and other mens) qùeftion, de utilitate mediorum P r cib s Jana tum ?area need no very learned Pens to determine it. He did well tomake that tame, tic, ut 6s Dtvtnnm iearned andpious Lady MariaVan schurman one of his CafuifIs. What propo/itum immntent: led can be plainer, than that means are made molt neceffary, and alfo the pod egdem velut media tllud iprampropofitum ad- libertyof our Wills in the ufe of Means, whenGoddothmake this one impleant mediantibus e- Decree ; e. g. [ Peter Ihall hear, believe, repent freely butcertainly, and fi nim talibeu orat de,obis quad Deus dif. nonibns;'be laved. ï Noah (hall make anArk freely, butcertainly, and be faved pofutt. Si Dtvtna pea- from thedeluge. ] [ Noah fhall planta Vineyard, andwater and drefs it delttnatio dicat Divinum in due feafon, freely but. certainly, and it íhall bear him fruit.] And propofatum to buo; um, non 'imams prembua; quia [fore-feeíng. that judár will freely betray his Lord , I will condemn nullum sternum juvatur him.] [Such a Sluggard will not plow and fow, and therefore (hall per aliquod temporale _ fedfidicant dtvinum pro- have no crop. ] [Such a man will not ufe any meet remedy again his politum, non abfolute, led Di- and Thall die by it.] It's ftrangethat nothing can pleafe you ut impious medianttbus cantle in a fettu, pe pYa. unlefs Godbe ignorant, ormutable, and over-rule not all theWorld. deainatie mania:precibut III. I have made it plain, that there is no thewof contradi&ion be- dr opertbxs fantlorum. tween Gods fecret and revealed Will. What contradi&ion is it to fay, judos, I command thee do not murder thy felt, ] and [ I know that udas will betray his Lord, and will difpair, and do that which tendeth to hisown murder, and for his fin he lhalf be fo felf - murdered]. Or [ jeedas will betray Chrift, andIhall be damned for it, ] and [ I forbid Yodels to betray Chrift. ] Plainly, a. About punifhment, Gods revealed Will in his Law, fpeaketh only de jure (vet debito) in forbidding it. 2. Gods revealed Will by Prophefie fometime fore-telleth that this Law will not be kept; and Gods Decree is, that the punithment eventually be inflicted fo that one fpeaketh only de debito, and the other de eventos. And about fan it is but Gods fore- knowledge deeventos, and his Law de de- bito, that feem to you contradiefory, without any reafoñ. But this belongeth to the firfl Articles, where you had enough of it before i Arld mans true power to domore good, and forbear more evil than he doth, is fo far from beingdenied, that it is afferted in all, and your charge denied generally by the Calvingls, unlefs perhaps by fome nth contentious Difputer of a (hallow brain, who cannot difttnguith be- tween plyfcal, moral, and meer logical impolfibiltties. You may read theSynodof Doris exprefs renunciationof it, that man candonomore good than he doth, nor forbear more evil: And doyou know their judgment better than they know their own? And will you go on to charge them with thatwhich they abhor? THE
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