Ch.38 of the iftte of Beleevers. 293 argument. S. Fifthly, From verf 25. l f the breaking of the Jewes be by blind- ing, then the ingraffing is by giving Faith , but the former is true, verf. 25. Ergo the latter. 4nftv. Here as in the third Argument, I grant "the conclufion, and returne the fameanfwer. Jewith blindneffe keeps them out of a Church -Date and fo from all Faith in the Covenant ; and when the vaile fhall be taken away, they (hall be re- invefted in a Church fiate and Covenant-condition. Matter Geree here underftanding Illumination to Profeflion, Matter rombes tells him pag. az. It is eafier to cenfure then to anfwer, vairo?ts blinding or hardening is, verf 7. oppofed to that fiate which the E'leílion obtained, by which, verf. 8. they had a fl'i- rit offlamber , eyes that they fhould not fee, eares that they Jhauld not hear, verf. ro. Whereby their eyes Were darkened that they might not fee , from which Anti-Arminians gather abfolute reprobation, Ames animad. in Kemon. Script. Synod, Art. r. Cap. 16. Hoc ipfam ad reprobationem fpeEtare tlpoflolus Paulus ciaré oflendit, Rom, II. 17. Now according to the rute of oppofite.t, Oppofìto- rum oppofita funt attribute ; If the blinding be the offeEt of repro - bation, and the breakag of be by blinding, then the ingraffing is by inlightening,and that inlightening is acco,ding to Eletlion, and foie all one with giving of Faith. . It is hard to anfwer fuch reafonings, and not cenfure. Here is Divinity which calls for patience in a degree above all that is Chriftian. His propofition being ; If the blinding be the effeft of reprobation, and the breaking off is by blinding , then the ins" grarEing is by inlightening, and that according to Election, then his affumption can be no other, but that blindnefie is the effeft of reprobation, and the breaking off is by blinding ; Which one Í of the Contra- rernonflrants worthy the name of an adverfary of Arminians hath taught this doctrine ; It is that which their adverfaries indeed charge upon them but that which they una- nimoufly do difclaime. I have beard that reprobation is the an- tecedent of fin , but never that it, was the caufe ; and that finne is a confequent of , but never an efeft. Reprolltion is the Aft; of God , and in cafe it be the caufe of blindnefle then God is Pp3; the
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