oppofethnot Gods Mercy, 287 to extend the effe6is of his mercy unto all, but he alwayes guideth the difpenfation thereof according to the abfolute and free decrees of his own,will : So that the na- turalneffe of his mercy hindercth not the limiting of that fpeciall mercy which flow- eth from Election unto fuch ,fingular per- fons as himfelf intendeth it unto ; neither Both it forbid him to withhold the fame from filch fingular perfons as he hath de- creed to paffe-by in the difpenfation there- of. And this abfolute libertie and fupreme dominion which God bath in the preparing or not- preparingof effecîuall grace, where- in the abfolute decrees of EleEtion &Non- ele6ion do thew themfelves , is a thing as naturadl and as pleafing unto God as his Mercy. As for vindicative Juftice , it maybe cal- led a ,grange work, becanfe it is opus occafio-- natum by mans tranfgreffion. But as Prede- fination is no ad of remunerative Juflice, no more is negative Reprobation or Non- el eaion ofvindicative futtice :but they are bothas of Gods abfolute dominion and free libertie, in giving or withholding his own according to his own will and plea- fure. God is morefrequent and forward in the D exercif of his Mercy and Bounty then of his Anger andvindicative Juftice. A
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