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V
E
R.
4.
goda
EleElion.
in
the death offinne
and trefpaffe,
in
which by nature they
are concei-
ved.
Now
thefe
who have the
punifhment
of
that
fin
never removed
from
them,
mull
needs
be under
that
fin
once contraéted by him
:
And
though the latter part
of
that
exception
is
true
in
this
fence,
that by
reafon
of
unbeleefe
that
fin
hurteth them, which
otherwife would not
;
yet
in
this
fenfe
it
is
not true,
viz.
Unbeleevers
are onely condemned
for
that
fin
ofunbeleefe, not for
that
fin
they
finned in
vi
dam
alto,
and
other
a6tuall tranfgreffions. But
whether at
firfl
contralted,or
after con-
tinued,
it
condemnes
;
This
is Cure,
that
unlefi'e
it may be verified
that
the
fin
Both not
by
any meanes
hand
on
any mans (core, fo
as
to be con-
demned for
it,
that
it
mull needs be yeelded
a
meane
whereby
juftìce
is
glorified
in
the
juh
revenge of
Tome.
t,Argument 2.
Either
God
had
no
end
in
making
his
creature,
or this
end,which
now
he compaffeth, or
fume other which
he
bath
not
attained.
But
he
could not
be
without
his
end
in
making him,nor have
any
other
end,
which
he
bath
not
attained.
The
firf
propofition
is
undoubted
:
the
fecond
is as
cleare
:
for
to
have no end in working
agreeth
not to God,
a
wife and understanding
agent;
to
have
an end and
not
attain
it, handeth not with
his
blef'ed-
nefi'e
; for
to
have
a
primary principali end, which one
affe
ð,is
more
blefi'ed
then not
to
have it.
Again, he whofe
providence
is
fo
perfetì
that
no inferiour
caufe can
default befide
his
intention and permiffion,
his
end cannot
be
difappointed
:
Now
it is plain
that
no inftrument
can
default further
then he intendeth
it shall,
and choofeth to permit
it ;
for
if
any
defeft
befall
an
inftrument which
the
Artificer
choofeth
not,
his
work
is
troubled,
and it
argueth ignorance
or
impotency
in
him
that
fo
worketh.
vlrgument
3.
Either
God
did
by
his antecedent
providence
propound this end,
or he
commetb
to
it
by
occafion
offing
event.
But
he
doth
not
come to
this end
ofaving
in Ghrifl
by
occafion.
First, this after
-
providence
is
imperfect, nut befeeming
God
;
when
one, after
a
thing
is
fallen
out,
maketh
the
heft
ofit,
and
is
rather
pefi
-vi-
dentiathenprovidentia.
Secondly, this maketh
God
ufea
more
imperfei
providence about
his
molt excellent works,
and
come
to that,
befides
his
primary
inten-
tion, which
is
farre
more glorious then the
firfl end
could have been
in-
tended.
Thirdly,
this maketh
God,
like
men,
to
doe as
he may, when he
is
hindred from
that
he
would.
vtrgument 4.
That
which doth take
away
the
unfearchable
roger,
of
Elellion
and
reprobation,is not
to
be
admitted.
But
tochoofe,
reject,
after
the
fall,
doth evacuate this myfiery.
For though
God
deal
diveriy
with mennow
in equall
condemnation,
yet the
juítice
of
this
fad
is
apparent; for
God
may punifh
with death,or
E
3
make
No
word
tea
-
cheth
that
God
had
any
other
evcnrfor
doe
tht.r
tive,
doth not prove
that God pro-
pounded
to at-
tain this
as
his
end, that
we
might
all
live,
no
more
then
in
what
day
thou
eata/t,
them
fhe'tdie
the
death,
doth
argue
thatGod
had this
end,
nit.
that all
mankind brea-
king
his
Law,
Mould
die
eternally,