31a The Sublapfarians doarine in effeEt ; for they fay two things : I. That God did lay a neceflitie upon every man ofbeing born in originali finne, as I have noted before ; z. That he bath a determined for that thine to call away the greateft part of mankind for ever. And fo they make God to do that by two ac`ìs, the one ac- companying the other , which the other fay he did by one. This is fo clear a cafe, that Calvine with fome others have not flicked to fay that God may with as much juftice deter.. mine men to hell the firft way as the latter. See Inflit. 1.3. c. z3. §. 7. where againfl thofe who denie that Adam fell by Gods decree, he reafoneth thus ; All men are made g.uiltie of Adams finne by Gods abfolute decree alone : Adam there- cos fore finned by this onely decree. Z What letteth them togrant prohibet fa_ that ofone man which they mull grant of all men ? And a teri de little after he faith, a It is too ab u, d that thefe and atrones homine,quod f f k" p inviti de of Gods juflice fhould thus (tumble at a flrazv and leap over a toto humano block. God may with as much juftice decree Adams finne genere con- cedunt5 Quid onely and mens damnation out of his will and pleafure , as, enim tergi- out of that will and pleafure , the involving of men in the verfando lu- guilt of the firft finneand their damnation for it : that is the decent ope- fubftance of his reafoning. To the fame purpofe fpeaketh rami a Bonos iftos Maccovius From hence we may fee faith he , what to judge juilitiæDei of that opinionofour adverlaries, viz. That God cannot jufily patronos ordain men to dellruaion `without the confederation offinne. perplexos b Let them tellme which is greater , to impute to one man the hi fs fin ofanother and uni him for it with eternall death, or to ítucà, altas i f verò trabes ordain limply, without looking at finne, to deftruClion : Sure- fuperare, ni- Iv no man will denie the firfl of there to be the greater. But pab}ur- this God may do without any wrong to ju(îice: much more. there_ b Macon. fore may be do the other. To thefe confcnxeth Dr Twifte, and dill/. 18.p.16. faith, c IfGodmayordain men to hellfor .Adamsfinne, which Nam disant, is derivedunto themby Gods may conllitution, he may as well quxfo, nobis do it abfolutely without any inch con(litution. And it is moll 1 t, imputare true, it is all one in fubftance, limply to decree the miferie of afield ad- an innocent man, and to involve him in a finne that he may pam' alteri- be brought to miferie. Neither of there decrees ( I take it) us, & pro- are juft. Ater ipfam Alummorte I I. The fecond reafon why it is (C) againfl Gods juflìce, 4tern . plç_ is, becaufe it maketh him to require faith in Chrift of thofe -acre ; an verò Ordinare ad interitum.' At hoc poteit fine ulla lxfione juftitix fux : ergò mul- tò magis poteft illud pofterius. e Di T'tniff. Yin. áiat. 1. a. din. I.pag.r S. Qiodpo- tell Dens intercedente liberâ fäá conftitutione , illud etiam abfolute potent vel fine üliqua coni}itutione intercedenteó to Ifs
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