Ephefian.r,C;hap. I. VE R. 4., make that treafon,trefpaffe,which is committed againfl him; Who will challenge this fadofinjuflice t Argument.5. That which maketh God willfame ofhù creatures conditionally, thatis not to begraunted. But to make Godchoofe after thefa/l,makethhim to havewilled ineffec- tually fameother end. Gods will were not omnipotent,fhould it not effe/t whatever it will erh ; Gods velle, is pole ; neither can he have a conditional! will. I will give my creature life, ifhee keepe this commandement : For, eyther hee mull: fuppofe that his creature muff doe fomething which he will not make him,and then he werenot omnipotent; orthink that he will make him doe that thing, and on doing it give him life, andthis ineffeta will moll: abfolute; or he mull know that he neither will, nor can doe it, and yet will this on a condition which he doth fee impoffible ; and this were frivolous. vlrgument. 6. That which makethGodlooke out of'himfelfe,for determining hiswill: But to elei7andreject after thefall fugfcndeth that determinationofbù will en qualificationfore-feene in thecreature,Ergo. The firff part is manifefk ; For it maketh himnot having all fuffici. ency inhimfelf, andas it were imperfeâion inhisunderftanding,to goe forth of himfelfe, feekingknowledge from things without him, as we doe ; fo is it for his will to looke at things without himfelfe, that there- upon he may determine his will. vlrgument. 7. That Eletlion and reprobation which are fhadowed in theperms of Jacob and Efau,that is the true elellion and reprobation. But eleïlionandreprobation ofperfans, yet not aF,tuall exifting, but in famekindepo/ible, ofperfonswithout merit , or demerit, are fhadawed orth,Ergo. Argument. 8. That ele£lion andreprobation, which makeGod a Potter framinghis clay from his meere pleafure,to contraryends,afhonour andfhame, that elehion and reprobationareofman beforehisfall. a.Thefelater reafons doe more fway with me, and feeme to me far more unanfwerable. For I cannotfee, how God canbe thought to have hadotherends without many abfurdities,as for example; r. Without holdinghe may fuller defeafance in the intentions he purpofeth, and by hisprovidence endeavoureth. a.That God is mutable,going fromone intention to another;and that his will is not effeétually in everything it willeth; that his will doth on fore-fight of fome thing, in the creature determine it felf tothat, to which of it felfe it is not determined. Secondly;I hold thatthe fureffway tracing truly the order ofthings in Gods intention, is tomarke well the exifling ofthem in execution. Nowwe fee firft the world, was made. Secondly,man,and foGodschò- fen
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