iii ( 270 ) Did God Decree to give us Right to Life or not If not , then we have it not as Decreed. If he did, then the Decree caul- ed not the being of it : and then it had nobeing, for it had no other caufe fromEternity. I fpeak all this more to the Defence and Confirmation of my Argument, then your confutation : For in doing that I fhould take another courfe, and deny theDefinition ofyou, in the cafe in hand ; and prove both, that if God fhould not perform his De- cree, it wouldnot be injustice in him, or injury, (which is contra- ry to jut, as in our cafe ) but only mutability, ( as Dwandus imagined alio:in cafe he fhould not perform his word, which is much more ; ) and that neither the Purpofes of Godor man,do convey any Right to another, of the benefit purpofed : no nor a bare difcovery of that purpofe neither , nor that which form call a Pollicitationsas diftin6t from a Promife ; but only fuch a Promife, Grant, or Law, whofenature andufe is to transfer or convey Right. Y. If man bath aRight to all that God bath Decreed to him, then he bath Right to punifhment , even to Hell from Eternity, before ever he finned in himfelf or in 4dam: yea before he was : and this punifhment is his due but that is not true. 2. I knowmolt of thofe that are againft me, will maintain that God Decreed from Eternity, that men fhould commit all the fins that ever are committed, iplo permittente,d- volkentatem adalum, pnemotione immedi ito efficari pradeterminante : and fo fin was due to all (inners from Eternity > when they were no men : or they had then Right to it : but that is not true. 3. No Right is conveyed to another, but by fome Tranfient as , (for it doth make a change on the objeft , ponendo novam relat'onem:) But Gods eternal purpofe is not fuch an ; there- fore, &c. 4. The Tranfient at which makes fuch a Relative change, (in giving Right, ) mutt do it by hying a real foundation whence that Relation must +Truk : but the eternal purpoie layes none fuch ( But the Promife or 4ant of the Law of Grace, is that foundation,Conp;one preerlit4,abt ,14 co4.its efi promfi2.) That which giveth not Title, gives not Right : but d-c. Much more might eafily be fail to the great dish )n )- or this new unheard of opinion (till now fo far as I kno ) that men have Right to that which
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