Davenant - Houston-Packer Collection BT810 .D38 1641

It.68 Supralapfarians charge not God ces, 'conditions or,occafions as God know- eth will infallibly induce them to fume.' This is not done by abare permifsion, but y forcekind of operation. And this is out of all queflion amongft judicious Divines whether Proteftants or Papiíls. And yet withall theymaintein, that men thus repro- bated, and thus permitted to fall into finall impenitency, thus-placed by Divine provi- dence in circumftances and conditions which he knoweth will by them infallibly beabufed unto finne and obfUinacy in fine, were not thereby fpoiled of their pofsibi- lity of ftanding, or of their pofsibility of not committing this or that finne permitted, TheReprobation thereforewhich is main- reined by orthodox Divines , and the Per- thereunto annexed, importeth not a withholdingof graceabfolutely neceffary for the avoiding of finnes fo permitted , much leife a neceflitating of finners unto their feverall finnes, but a withholding of all grace which wouldbe de fdao effec uall unto the avoidanceof finne, and fuch an or- dering of circumflances and occafions as God certainly knoweth will make them freely runne into their finnes andobftinately continue in them. Nowwhereas it is further objected, that from the withdrawingof f fiichgracefilmmuß needsfollow; we anfwer, That finne loth in- fallibly

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