2 2 4 Confidcrttions concerning creed to permit that any man should finally peri(h in his impenitencie, he had quite overthrown the difference which we make betwixt men predeftinated and not- predeflinated : but telling us onely what Godwouldhaveusdo and what God would not have us wilfully to runupon, here is no- thing at all which makethagainft abfolute Predeflination or Reprobation. They are decrees conteining what God is refolved to work in íome men and not to work in o- thers ; thefe are words fhewing what God would have men do or not do : and therefore they cannot be contraditorie or contraryone to the other. Powerfully to work the converfion of fingular perfons, is a certain proof that they were never under the decreeofthe DivineReprobation : But volrsntate complacentice onely to will their converfion, and patiently to expel it, ufing fuchmeans as they fruftrate, is fo farre from evincing that fuch men were not under the decree of Reprobation , that it is a thong argument toprove it. Vide Eflium ire r. Sent. Dili. 46. Malderus (a profeffed, enetnie to ..an ,h, the Synod of Dort) granteth e that the fi- q"41.79' nail obduration or imperaitencie of Repro - memo. 4. p 247. bates is not a forefeen antecedent condition but a following event ofnegative Repro- bation. He was not ofthis Authours judge- ment then, who thinketh Gods patient ex- pe Cation
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