oppofeeth not Gods Mercy. ads of mans voluntary rebellion caufe his damnation and torments in hell. Nothing Both or can make any mans falvation de- fperate but his own defAerate wickedneffe and obilinate wilfulnefre. q Clam dicitur qubd q Aqui . l pert. i. reprobates non potefl gratiam adipifci, non eft q,s, z3. hoc intelligendum fecundásm impofibilitatem abfolutam, fed feeundt%m impoffibilitatem con- ditionatam, quæ non tolli; libertatern arbi- trii. But let us now fee how he will prove that God is more merciful to devils then to men , fuppofing the abfolute decree of Non election or negative Reprobati- on. Men were appointed to hell, not for their Objet ownproper perfonall finnes , but for the finne of another that finned before they were born : whereas the devils are damned one- ly for their own proper perfonall finnes. Ergó. This Authour runneth continually upon Anf one firing, and that continually quite out of tune. For whereas the queflion is con- cerning the eternall immanent as or de- crees of Eleaion and Preterition or nega- tive Reprobation, he alwayes talkethof the judiciary decreeof Damnation, or appoint- ment of men and angels unto hell-fire. The eternall decree difiinguifhing angels into Ele& and Non elea was neither grounded upon 3o5
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