Davenant - Houston-Packer Collection BT810 .D38 1641

194 The Supralapfarians doarïne tì Pro('. ad way governedby an active., abfolute and almighty decree) Cap. Gall. towhat purpofe are theyufed ? Who Teeth not plainlywhi- fent. t. ther thefe chinostend? to nothing more then the fubverfion tour eqx rpræt ofpietie and politie, religion and laws, focietie and govern- deffinatione ment ? This did the Romanes fée full well : and therefore Dei, velar they banifhed Mathematicos the teachers and abettouts of de- fatali necef- finie out of Rome. Thefeand the like inconveniences which neaten houri come from the upper Vva , did work fo with Prof er as that nes in per- PP y P cata cour he talleth him noCatholick who is of this opinion; uwho- pulfos cogi foever faith that men are urged to finne and to be damned by dick inmor- the Prede ination of God by fatal' unavoidable ne tem, non eft ! f Ì a, y a f Catholicus. cefJätie, he is no Catholick. They did alfo make the Aran- * toner. A- ficane Counsel denounce a curie againft fuch ; * That any rain 2. can. arepredeflinated by the Divinepower tofinne, we do not onely ad mafúmos not believe, but with the greateft deteßaiion that we can, we Divinâ po- denounceAnathema tofuch (ifthere be anyfilch ) as will be- teftare pra:- lieve fo great an evil. deftinatos Thus tarte ofmy reafons againft the upper and more harth elfe, non fo- lùm non rte- and rigorous way. dimus, fed etiam fi qui An anfiver to the fécond Inconveniencean- ent qui tan- tammalum ferred upon the Decreeof abfolute eve- Predeflination and Re- lint , cum omni Bete- probation. f}atione illis Anathema dicimus. `(His Authours difcourfe concerning this 1i 1 fecond Inconvenience , which is the overthrow ofall true religion andgovernment ¡irnongfl men , and is divided into feverall branches (takingup fix pages at the leaft) is briefly anfwered thus ; That whatfoever he pathdifcourfed concerning Fatali necef- - fide and Coationof mens wills following upon the abfolute decrees ofPredeftination and Reprobation , is a vain fanfie of his o`vn, a beggerly Petitioprincipii, whichbe- caufe-he knoweth not how toprove, he ne- ver

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