2 2 9 The Sublspfarians doarine Lìionor negative Reprobation, being not a decree which denieth all effects of Love or Pitie to the Non-elect, but a decree onely denying them that high andchoiceeffet of infallible direction unto eternal! life, this decree may well 'land with the Mercy and Love of God. For thofe inferences therefore, that ifab- folute Reprobation óe granted, Godmay more properly be calleda Father ofcrueltie, tt:70Mt5COV, I marvel how he trembled to think ofthem,and never trembled to utter them. That where- in he perpetually is mi'laken, is the making of Non-election or negativeReprobation a vindicativead, the confounding it with the judicial' fentence ofDamnation, theconcei- ving it to work in the Non-elet an invinci- ble neceílitie ofcommitting finne, with fuch other monarous fanties which he taketh for principles needing no proof; whereas they are filch groffe erroursas need no confutati- on. Non-election taketh not up Gods Mer- cy fo short, but everyman in the world path a {hare in it,thoughnot an equall (hare. And if Gods Mercy& Love muff be underftood f cundlim eeelumand notfecundúm affec`lum, let him find out any man or any creature in the world which bath conferred fo many and fo great effects ofmercy and loveupon his young ones as God did upon Cain, Ju- das, or anyother reprobate,and then let him advance their love above the love ofGod.
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