7, f SOcimt áncl Effeduál' G .ràce. 35 "to obtain it. He could obtain it, if he would do all that he " cars. Hot volt news nt omnea * B. This is no more than to fay, that either properly he dothnot elves vitæ par=spout!. will that man excite lis own Will to the aEi ( in that he will not do that cirirtmßantte without which he knoweth it will notbe done ) 5 or that he willeth it ram non igins votuntate hunt : /ed pro merito eorum but conditionally, [ If fo much help will procure it. 7 . And for want gat peceaverante tnferun- of plain opening thecafe as it is, you dobut entangleyour felf in un- tar, vttam nenacaiq;pro- pria volutttate trthuit intelligible words, when you talkof unefetlual velleities of the event tram veto pBi- quilq; which yet are abfolute. tbetauriçat, Baßt. rri i'fal. z6.. A. "How willyou explain it better? B. As is fufliciently done before. I. God abfolutely willeth that it fhall be mans dutyto repent andbelieve. Duty is the thing antecedently willed withan abfolute Will. 2. God willeth that Heaven (hall be his due, if he perform that condition. g. But ifhe will not perform it thatHell be his due. This Will is conditional as to the thing willed. 4. There Volitions of God belong to him as Reaor ( fuppofing him a Benefactor) givingout his benefits by a Law. And this Will is expreffed byGods Law,which actuallyconflituteth the abfoluteDebitum obedienthe, and the conditional debitum premii vel peen e. g. The condition being paft, Gods confegitent Willis abfolute de prentiando vel poniendo : He willeth the death of the Impenitent confequently. And this is but Gods Will, quaindex, expreffed by his Judgment a&ually. 6. Though in ftrilt fenfe, the thingthat God antecedently willeth is not the event, but the debitumvelj01, man's duty, and his due thereupon 5 yet becaufe it belongethnot toa Legiflator asfuch to doany more towards the event, than command it (fuppofing neceffarypower and helps) therefore after the mannerof men, it is faid, that Godwilleth the event (Repentance and Salvation) becaufe he willeth to do fo much towards it, even all that concerneth himto do as ameer Re&or, (befides the donation of necef- fart' power or help as a Benefa&or.) And this is all that youmean, in whichboth fides are really agreed. A. " I confefs weufe toexplain it byhisAntecedent Will,andfayingthat Se quantum in fe, he would have all repent and live. Rut by quantum in fe, " wedo not mean that God doth as much as he is able to it : Therefore your " explication feemeth true, as well as conciliatory, that he cloth quantum in " feas'Re&or per leges, fuppofing alfohis necelJary help. B. SoGod delighteth not in the deathof Sinners, becaufe it is not his Antecedent Will that they die, but only hisconfequent, onfuppofition of impenitency which he willeth not : And alto becaufe it is the good of Jullice, and not our death and hurt asfuch, or for it felf that God loveth and delighteth in. But when men return and live, they fulfil his antecedent Will, and do that which he loveth asgood in itfelf. And he would haveall men come to the knowledge of theTruth, and be faved 5 that is, He obligeth bothMiners to preach to them, and others to prayfor them andhelp them, and themfelves to obey and receive his Gracé 5 And he giveth themmeans, andgiveth Chrift and Life by free donation to all, on condition theywill but accept theGift. Andhe that ftridly willeth this much, may be Paid after the manner ofmen, to will the event. And this is all that both fides mean, if they underftood them felves. The
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