their Councils abridged. 2. 65 ' boni ofe non potuerunt, fed quia boni ere' noluerurn. Cap. 3. Prædeflinatic- ' nern eleciorum advitam,&predefinationem impiorum admorternfidenterf a- ' Lemur : In eleétione tamen falvandorummifericordaamDei precedere meritaam ' bonum,in damnation autem periturorum meritum maims- precedere juflum ' Dei judicium: PredeftinationeautemDeumea tantumftatuJe que ipfe úel ',gratuitd mifericordid veljugo judicio faCturus erat.--In malis vero ipforum malitiam prefeife, quia ex ipfis eft; non priedeflindffe, quia ex ilia non eft. Ponaan fane maims meritum eorum Jequentem, uti Deum,qui omnia profücit 'prefcivifi pradeflinaffe, quiajuftus eft : apudquern eft, ut S. Auguftinus de omnibus omnino rebus, tamfixa fententaa, quam certa prefcieneoa 'Verum aliquos ad malum prredefiineotos efe divinapoteflate, videlicet ut quail ' aliud ofa nonpoffent, non folum non credimus, fed etiam fafunt, qui- tantum ` malum credere velint, cum omni deteftatione, ficut Araufica Synodus,illis Ana- ' thema dicimus. TheCorn is, God's mercy goeth`before Man's merit, but hisPredestination to punifhment is only on the forefight of their fin, which he decreeth not,becaufe hecaufeth not. Cap. 3. 'About ÿChrift's death they like not thofe that fay he dyed for all that from the days of Adam till then had been damned; but would have 'all" take upwith thisArlie Dottrine, that Godfo loved the world , that he 'gave his only begotten Son; that whoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlafting life. Carp. q.. They conclude that all trueBelievers regenerate by water and the ` Spirit, have theirfins washed by the blood of Christ :.And they could not have ' trueRegeneration, if they had not true Redemption. But of the multitude of ' thefaithfuland redeemed,force are eternally faved, becaufe they perfevere ; others are loft, becaufe they perfevere not in the falvation offaith which they ' had received, and fo make void thegrace of redemption. Cap. 6. ' About Grace and infirmed Free-will restored and healed by `Christ, they exhort Men to flick to the Scriptures, and the Councils of Africa ' andOrange, andnot tofollow the Aniles pene Fabulas Scotorum, (Ífuppofè they, mean the Followersof 7ohan. Scotass Erignene , who was murdered by his Scholars 8 3 3, whom Godefcalesse followed) ' left they' should be corrupted from the fimplicity that is in Christ : Remembring Christians that while they ' are vexedwith the prevalency, of the wicked in the world, theyjhould not vex ' the fad Congregations withsuchfuperfluosrs things. , Cap. 7. ,' They advife, that becaufe Bishops were fet over the.Cities that were ' untryed and almost ignorant of Letters*, and unlike theApoflolick Prefcript, " What a ` by which means the Ecclefiaftical vigor ie loft, that they would petition the Counei.l 'Prince, that when a Bifhop war.wanting, the Canonical Election by the Clergy, hofed and the People, might be ermitted, (becaufe the King was used to thruft make? hisFavorites on the People,) that Men of tryed knowledgeand life, and not ' illiterate Men , blinded: by covetoufnefs , might be fit as Bishops over the Flocks. . § s o. CCLXIII. An. 855. A Council was held at Papia in Italy by the Order of the Emperor Ludovicars, for the Reformation of the corrupt Cler- M m gy
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