andDecrees of god, &c. pofition hereof is ever falfe, becaufe it is fpoken by way ofCaufality and Confequence, when there is none. 3. Suarez and others fay , that God knoweth future contingents; even when theCondition is difparate or of no Caufality, a true Connexion of the termsfuificing. Albertinus Princ.4; To. r. qu. 4. dub. e. p. 292. pretendeth to a middleway, viz. i. That future .contingents fub condition arecertainly known ofGod, whether the condition be Caufal or meerly Conditional. a. But quandoConditio eft di- fparata, nonpoteftfuturum Contingens flab illy Conditione cognofci à Deo. 3.But becaufe there is a Concomitancy between the terms of the propo- litions, fuch a difparate Propofition -may be known of God, fub rátiode Concomitanthe. And accordingly they diverfifie Gods Decrees. To thequeflion, Whe- ther conditional future contingents may beknown ofGod inhis Decree, he firft telleth us ofa threefold Decree, i . Conditional pond Alum 6.Obje- aum, ut [f difcernerem concurfurom cum volontáte creatá, f talcs occa- fio occurreret; hoc futurum effet.] 2. Ex parte objeCti only, ( beingabfo- lute ex parte Taus.) 3; Abfolute on both parts; Í refer.: you to hin} p. 296,297. if you will fee the decifion, left I perplex and weary you: And for the Camereafon pats by a multitude of other controverfies of thefe men. SECT. XIV. offeberál DOW-lions of Gods will. 305. ArAny diftin6ìionsofGods will are ufed about thefe Controver fes: As, i. ThePófitiveAdsofGodsWillarediftinguifh- ed from his not-acting ( or not- willing. ) 2. The Poftive objeítevely; frc n the Negative-quoad objetbum. 3. The Pofitive from the oppoftive. 4. The Immanent and the Tranfient acts. g . The Tranfiente,/facienter, and the Tranfent only objectively. 6. TheNaturaland the Free. 7; TheEf- ficient and Permífve ads. 8. Beneplaciti & figni. 9. Abfolute and Con- ditional. Io.Efebual and unefécluat. tt. The Decreeing will and the PreceptiveWill 12. Antecedent and Confeyuent. And becaufe you will meet with all thefe, I lhall tell you in what fenfe only they mull be received. 306. I.Of thefirft I haveraid enough before. Godsfree-will hath its free-not-willings, that are nonolitions. 307. I I. Themeaning of the fecond is, that God doth pofitively will force Beings, and force Negatives. If theymean Negative Propofations, it's true, but inept; Becaufe thofe are Pofitive Beings. If they mean in the fecond branch [ Nothings ] they cannot prove that God Pofitive- ly at all willeth them. But he oft willeth their Antecedents and confequents, and occaflons, and he willeth all creatures to be Limited and Imperfed, and fo Negations mullneeds confequently pats upon them : And in that he willeth not-more, andwilleth caufes whichmay be deficient, men improperly and confequently fay hewilleth negatively, ne fins Plura, and the defects. But this is not firiél fpeech. 308. Yet in a moral fenfe God is oft laid to will Nothings(or Negatives Toad elfe :) (As that men (hall not have grace, that they (hallnot live, or not be pardoned, orPaved, Vic.) i . Becaufe he Both properly and pofitively will and make that Law which condemneth them to thefe penalties ; z. Be- caufe he will have Chrift pofitively Condemn them to Privative punifh- ments ; 3. Becaufe he clothpofitively take away Come of themercieswhich fl tend 49
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