MONIN=1 2ótß The Sublapfrians dociria:e fit to all men : And therefore we term the negation ofthis benefit or free favour, ab- folute lion-eleäion Preterïtion, or (in a more tiara) word) negative Reprobation. The forefeen faith and perfeverance ofPe- ter had not made him an objea fit by way ofremuneration to be invefted with eternali .fife, had not a former abfolute and free as of Gods merde fitted him with thegifts of faith, holineffe and perfeverance. Aquinas . bath well fet down and demonilratively proved this theoreme, opus Wide' temper prefpponit opens mifricordie, 6' in ea fundatur. There is the theoreme it fe'lf now 6 Tart. v. for the demonflration. b Creature nondebe- q.zz.a7t.4. tur aliquid nifi propter aliquid in ea preex- fiflens velprs.confderatum. Etrurfus , ji illud creature debetur, hoc exit propter aliquidpri- us. Et ciemnonfitprocedere i» infinitum, o(or. tet devenire ad aliquid quad ex (ola bonitate Divine voluntatis dependeat, qua efi ultimus finis. Let all the Remonftrants lay their heads together, and tell us what is prirnum indebitum which dependeth upon the will of God alone , but the grace of abfolute Eletion or Predeflination , for which we plead. Again , Judas his finali damnation had riot been fore-appointed, had not his fi- nail impenitencie been preconfidered. His finali impenitencie had not been forefeen, had tharprimum indebáturnwhichdependeth onely
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