Davenant - Houston-Packer Collection BT810 .D38 1641

16z Supralapfarians chargenot God finne , becaufe fome mainteining this Igo- trine do ignorantlyand falfely maintein to- gether with it an erroneous opinion :' As for Beza and Calvine, whom this Authour challengeth tomake God tó decreefinnewith an energeticall and .working will, and not onely with a perrnifsive, and therefore to make God the caufe offinne, he should firil have confidered that the permiffive decree con- cerning finfull abions implieth an infallibi- litie of the events fo permitted. Pofiaper - miiione certifsima e. fiuturitiopeccati quod permittitur , & omnium circumflantiarum qux permittuntur in illo. Secondly it íhould havebeen confidered , that there can be no infallible knowledge of fuch permitted' e- vents unleí% an Eneigeticall and Operative will be conjoyned with thePermiffive will. But how farre forth is this energeticall will or decree converfant about finfull alions whofe event is decreed by a permiffive will or decree e Firíf , It eternally decreeth and accord- ingly at the very time when finfull actions are committed it giveth the firmer the pow- er and ufe ofunderflanding and Free-will, . without which he could not finne. Secondly,God therebyeternally decreed to concurre, and accordingly at the inftant cloth concurre, admaterialem ac`lionempecca- ti, which otherwife could not come into aft or being. Thirdly, Wuk. De fctent.dirp. 69. §.IO.

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