29+ The Birth-Priviledge and Covenant- holinef e Ch. 3 8 the caufe ; fo that the Contra- remonfirant, have got a fweet Ad- vocate to call that upon them , that none of their adverfaries (though they have turned every Bone to it) could never prove by them. This being fo groffe, I examined the Errata, and finde falfe Latine in this reply .corretted, but worfe Divinity gaffes without amendment : And the other Member, that calling a. way is by blinding, .is little better. The Apoftle fpeaks in ano- ther manner ; blindneffe was their guilt ( according to that of our Saviour, Haft than known in this thy day the things that belong to thy ,peace ! but now they are hid from thy e yes, ) and calling off was their juif fentence ; Becaufe of unbelief they were broken off', verf. 20. upon this account God did not f pure them, as it followes in, the next verfe. The work, and the wàges, the guilt, and the punifhment, are not one: Unbelief which is blindneffe, and breaking off, are the work , and the wages , the guilt and the pu- nifhment: Breaking off is not then blinding. The Apoflle layes all at mans doore , makes his blindneffe the moving caufe, according to that of the Prophet ; Thy de jfraatlion is of thy [elf. And God only the fevere, but jufl Judge. Mailer Tombes layes all upon God, Gods reprobation caufes blindneffe, and their breaking off is by blinding ; here is no hand but Gods in their deflru&ion. And now the blafphemy of the confequence being denied,, fo that blindneffe is no effe& of reprobation breaking off being not by blinding ; what becomes of the rule of op- pofites here produced? And Mailer Tombes Ih.ould not be igno- rant, that ele &ion and reprobation in the work of falvation and damnation , do not per omnia quadrare otherwife as Ele&ion leads to falvation without any merit of works , fo Reprobation fhould lead to deftruetion without any merit of fin , which Con tra- remonfr.1nts unanimoufly deny though Maffer Tombes here will have them to afirme having before quoted verf. 8. and lo. of this Chapter.He faith,from which Anti- Arminians gather abfolute Reprobation,& then explains himfelf what this abfolute Reprobati- on in his fenfe ¿sin the words fpoken to.But though much be fpoke of the irrefpetlive decree both between us and Arminians, and allo among our (elves : yet I would faine learne of him, what one Anti-Arminian ever made Reprobation abfolute in his fenfe; he quotes Ameftry+ ; but the word abfolute is not found in him; And Çjomarue, a manifor the irrefpe&ive decree as much as any (and
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