Ioo Supralapfarians charge not God for any man, Annihilation or Torment, it carrieth a double improprietie of fpeech : fir ft, in that it fuppofeth forne kind of eligi- blegoodneíie in things which rightlyconfi- dered have none at all. For neither tobe an- nihilated nor tormentedhave any goodneffe at all in them for himwho is fuppofed to chufe the one before the other. Again, non ertis nulla afe/io: and thereforeannihilation cannot be-faid tobe good or bad, better or worfe for any man; fince all thefe terms re- quire a fubjeaor perfon in whom they muft be veriñed,which by annihilation is become nothing. Forour Savio irs fpeech ; It is according to the vulgar manner, who, when they fee a man extremeiy mi[chievous or miferable, ufc to fay, It had been happyfor fitch a man if he hadnever been born. And in the opinion of force good writersboth ancient and mo- dern, the words of our Saviour give no juft occahon to raife a curious controverfie con- cerning the Goodnefe or Betterneff of An- _ze. tom. nihilation and eternall Damnation. a Euthy- mius and Hieronymus interpret the words, 1.x,.45. IF HE HAD. NEVER BEEN BORN, If he hadperJed in his mothers Ivo obe: And Ca- jetane, Bonum erat yud4e fi natus non flüjiet, quia mortuus inutero incurrit fölùm ponam damni, &c. There words in this feníè con- cern not abfolute Annihilation, but Aborti- on,
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