Sao The Sublapfarians doc7rine yet this good being of the creature is a mercy of God principally exhibited unto the men who have the ufe thereof. But this loofe manner ofreafoning cometh from the falfeconceit, That Non-eleéion is the determining of perfons not-eleded by an omnipotent decree to their wofull being: Whereas Non-eleéion or negative Repro- bation is an eternal! decree in the will of God ofnot doing that for the advancement offorcemen unto a fupernaturall bleffed be- ing which he hath freely and gracioufly de- termined to do for others, and conteineth not any thrufling of them into a wofull be- ing byan omnipotent operation, but a per- mitting them to fall into fuch a wofull be- ing by their own voluntary default and tranfgreffion. As for his queflions , What man would have acceptedof life, ifhe had known upon what lamentable conditions it avLs to be tender- ed? or who would not curfe the day of his birth, if he did firmly believe that there were any abfolute decree of Eles`lion and Non-election To the former I anfvver, That eternal! F.leéion and Preterition are no capitulati- ons with the creature , no conditions ten- dered unto the creature, but onely imma- nent abfohite refolutions in the Creatour. And yet if God had revealed unto Cain oaa
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