2 I 2 Of Perfeverance. Pet: Allier. Camer. n.r.gaa.C.uælìbet ra- tionalis Creatara a Deo prædeiinata poteft dama- ri, & quælibet Reprobata poteiSalvasi : cat- sang; Deets debit gratias & glorias libere debit : & per Confegaens pofet NOR dare : ergo, &c. Sed licet bac tonclufio de vir- tate Sermonic fit vera ta- me: in fenfa compo/ito in- tellelia e¡t falfa. Thus all the quarrel is about words. C. " Theydeflroy it by their Do&rine, and fodo not we : It is with " us, but mens ownfin and infirmity that hindereth it. E. Q. r2. What fay you to your Do&rives before obje&ed againít you? t. That noman can be certain of Salvation, who is not certain that if hehad the ftrongeft Temptations in the world, he Ihouid not be overcome by them to fall away. Do not thefeput the comforts of the weakas hard to it, as their Do&rine doth ? C. "Thefe are True Do&rines, but Theirs are falfe. B. That is thecontroverfie, which I amnot determining : I only an- fwer your aggravation ofuncomfortablenefi of their Do&rine. Thefecond Crimination. C. "Their Doélrive maketh God to be Mutable, andhis gifts and calling " to be liable to repentance; and that one day he loveth a man, and "the next day hateth him, one day yuflifieth and another condemneth "him. B. This charge is injurious, upon grofs miftake5 and on the like grounds may be laid againft your felves. For, Q. r. Do you not hold that God hatethall the workers ofiniquity ? C. "Ter : asfuck. B. Q 2. And that he that believeth not is condemned already , and that all Infidelsand Heathensare unjuftified ? C. "Ter 5 though God may decree to juffifie them hereafter. B. Q3 But doth not God after Love and Juftifie fuch as are con- verted ? C. " Ter; none cloth deny it. B. Q q.. If then this prove not God to be mutable, to Juftifie and Love fuchas he condemned andhated, why fhould it prove himmuta- ble to condemn andhatefuck as he 7u1íifiedand Loved ? I do not fay that he doth fo 5 but ifhe did, ordo, it will not prove any change in God. For ashe that is Onecaufeth all Diverfity and Multiplicity of Beings; fo he that is Immutable, caufeth innumerable Mutations : The change is in the Creature, and not inGod. C. " Is it net a change to Hate where he Loved ? Theft are imma- " sent ails. B. Nomore than to Love where he Hated; In Man fuch words lignifie a change, but not in God : For it is not Gods Immanent at-Cs as Imma- nent that are changed, via. His Aílivity, underjlanding or Will in it Pelf: But only that Immanent A& as Objetlively Tran(lent (if not effèÉlively) ; fo that it is only , r. The termination of the efTential eternal A& on this or that Objea. 2. TheRelation of it to that obje&; 3. The Extrinfick Denominationof it,from that Relation, by Connotation, which arechanged and diverfifyed ; and this inferreth no change inGod. The third Crimination: C. " At leafl they snake his Covenant changeable, as candenining a man " one day whom it juflifed the daybefore. B. Not atall. The. Covenants A&ion is phyfically none, but only fuch as fome call a Reputative Aft; that is , per modusfgni; and as the
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