Davenant - Houston-Packer Collection BT810 .D38 1641

2 32 The SAW :trims clot% rine 4nfiver. Whether A6folute Reprobation cro Gods Attributes. VVE grant that God ;waked) no decrees contrary to;his nature : If therefore we muff needs croffe Gods attributes unleffe we admit the Retnonflrants conditionate Predeflination and Reprobation , we will fubfcribe to it. . Weacknowledge thefe to be chiefattri- butes : and therefore what contradicteth any of thefe we will prefently renounce. As for an abfolute unlimitedpower feparated from Juílice or other Divine attributes , we fay De ceterm with learned Calvitie, a Sorbonicum illuddo- -,,,..,,,o. ' Prod. in quo ibi laudunt Pa ales Theologafiri pag.r2. s gm etejiorquo p entiam abfolutam Dee) a ff tn- git. Solis enim lucem â calore evellere facili . us erit quâmDeipotentim /parare h jufitia. Nay it is asimpoffi;le for any unjuíf action to proceed fromGod, as it is for the Crea- tour to become a creature. The fecond thing preconfidered is more doubtfull. For that may be unjufi in men which is not unjufl in God. As in a King it is an unj ufl action to fet up Judges and Ma- giflrates over the people whom he know- eth will unjufflyoppreffe them:it is not fo in God. In a Man it is want of mercy not to hMndeba desperate wretch from de troying

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