Chap. 3 $ of the if ie of Beleevers. 2 95 (and upon that account entred his diffent iu the Synod of Dort, where refpeetive to reprobation that was denied, and the Sublap- farian opinion effablifhed) yet he peremtorily denies any repro- bation abfolute in this fenfe ; a Neither cloth god (faith he) abfo- lately and barely deftinate any man to defiruaaion, without f ubordi- 1 a NegneDeits nate means ; but he deftinates, him to juft deftruiiion , that is by and quenquaaa ad ' Ìfor in u lie to be executed. Analyfis e if}. ad Rom, cap. 6 . exttuara abfolute .f 7 Y p p' ° p acnudèfane fib- Neither will he have this decree to effeâ this fin ; that is a jutf i ordinatis medi- 1ldedium ofdeftruc ion. In the fame page he faith ; b God cloth' is, fed ad exi- not decree to effet7 fin, but to fuffer, or not to binder, and to governo i tium juftum,ho; for his glory Neither cloth God e ff'e l all that he cloth decree but cJl,per prop - ter peccataJudi- ois jufto in fo- rendum deflina vit. b Deus non: decrevit peccata fed per - - mittere, feu non impedire,(9" re -- gore ad gloriam thole things which he decreed to e f feCI, of thole he is the effuthour , all thegood that ii done But the evil which he dec reed not to hinder in his creature that bedoth not effeéi becanfe he did not decree to lea feci them ; but only permits, and governes them ; and at 14 juftly according to his decree punil?cs them. And Doétor `d'rideaux, Le& T. de abfoluto decreto. C That neceffary nirlinciion between the e ffeti and confeciuent (viz. of Reprobation) loofes not a few mots ; which many not under,ltanding or not duely heeding are brought into ftraits by their adverfaries. The condenfation of water gram. Nec eces (that ¡may ufe Auflines infante) ù a confegesent of the abfe,ce ofthe quicquid lud' Sonne, not an effeîi. The ruine of a houle, of it felf tending to decay, etiam e55.cit, fed :: nece farily follow es upon the want of repaire , which the Mailer might qua dccrcvit do' in cafe he pleafèd, but will not, neither is he bound: Sinne no ; eficere , eorum eft otherdnife follows upon Reprobation; not as a caute efficient, but deft- Author ut omnia bona 114. tient not whereby any thing ù removed that is prefent 'but that is fout; qua au -, notfupplied which is wanting_ And Malter Ball in his larger Cate- tem decrevitnon chi/ine, pig. 57. Sinne is the effeR of mans free Will , and condem- impedire_ in nation is an efrec`i of jufaiice infiihled upon man for fn and difobedi- feuperis main; once; But the decree of God which is good, is the cattle of neither. So nonefici, quia efficere non de- crevit, fed'permittit fig' regio tanrtim , ON tandem punit convenienter decreto. c Non paucos diffolvit nodos dif inllio tlla nece(jária inc'r effellum ç catifequens, quam, minúc intelligentes aliqui , vel infuper habentes ad incitas frequenter ab a'dv:rfariis adigun cur. Induratio agnat (ut infi em cum Attguflino) confequens eft, non efec`fus: 7juinaDomûs alicujus ex fe labilic neceffarió fequitur defeltura fttltura quam fuppeditare potuit Dominus fi libuerit , . /èd nec vult, nec tenetur. Haud aliter reprobationem fequitur peccatum , non ut eau- jam eficientem, fed deficientert, non quâ removetur quod adefl, fed n n admovetur quoda fuftentaret. we
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