withmensfirm's: t d i ti á pr edeftinatis, f ilicet glorix, & ejus quod percipitur in prefentt, filicet gratiee : Repro- batio verè nonefl caufa ejus quad eft in pro- fenti, fcilicet culpe;fed eft caufa derelitlionis z Deo. Eft tarnen caufa ejus quad redditur in futuro, fcilicet p eno ¿terme. Sed culpa pro- venit ex libero arbitrio ejus q.íi reprobatur & sti gratia de f ritur. If the Remonftrants could be brought to a true underflanding of this fhort decifion, all their quarrels were at an end. Sinne is confiderable either formally and Dif.rr. in its own nature, ebs it isfinne, or as it is a Z. means of declaring Gods juftice in mens pu- nijhments. God doth not predeftinate men to finne as it is finne , but as a meansofpunijh- ment. This diainaion is either not well conceived or at leali not clearly expreffed by this Authour. Thofe who defend the decree of abfo- lute Predeflinationand Reprobation do not fay that God predellinateth any man unto finne, but that God by his fecret counfel ordaineth what finnefull events he will per- mit to be brought into aet, and what good ufes he will applie them unto. Their di_ flindion flandeth upon thefe terms : That in finnefull aciions we may confider that which properly and formally maketh them faulty , namely their Repugnancie unto Gods laws and of this God is not the Au- M 3 thour
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