304 The Sriblapfariíms docirine their creation ( notwithftanding the fore; nameddecree) their falvation was fo farre from being defperate or impoflible, that it was moft eafie and poffible , and never was defperate till their wilfull rebellion had made it fo. What more eafie to be obteir:- ed then that which cannot be loll unlcffe the partie himfelf by a wilfull at of his own lofe it ? Upon thefe terms flood the falvation of the Non-ele& angels, now ( by their own default) devils. As for the de- cree of non-eleéion concerning men; it made the falvationof nochildren of Adam defperate as they are conldered in him ac- cording to his eflate of juflice and innocen- cie ; for in that he had both a pofiîbilirieand a fufficiencie to have atteined falvation for himfelf and them. Neither doth it now make any mans eflate defperate as he is confidered lying in the fall: for by Chrift fufficient means of falvation are provided for all (inners whatfoever; and God fecun- di m legenz ardinariam may apply them to any fìngular perfon whatfoever, whileft he is in "btu vi,e. And he now adjudgeth no man to the wofull eflate of torment or damnation in hell, that loth not willingly put himfelf out of the way which leadeth unto heaven, It is not the fecret and etcr- nail decree of Non-eleí`tion or Reprobati- on which maketh God do this ;but the open acts
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