opptignethnot Gods 7uftice. havingput out a mans eyes for an offenfe, can command this man with juilice to reade a book, and becaufe he readethnot, put him to death; or then aMailer (that I may return the Si- mile in the anfwer) when he hath taken away from his fcr.. vant,the flock whichhe hath mifimployed , can afterward waft of him a jut' imployment of the fama flock, andpu= nitb him becaule he imployeth it not. I conclude therefore, That the abfolute and inevitable Re- probation of luch men as are called to believe inChrift, and puniihed if they believe not, is utterly repugnant to the juá Rice ofGod,and therefore can be no partof his word. Anfwer. Whether abfolute Reprobdtionmiyfßandwitfi Gods fuffice. V`( 7E have often laid, that by abfolute 1' V Predeflinationand abfolute Repro- bationorNon-eleetionwe underflandonely that eternal' immanent ad whereby God loth freely and abfolutelypurpofe to give unto forceof Adams pofierity that effeduall grace which flull infallibly bring them unto glory , and wherebyhe doth as abfolutely out of the fovereigne freedome of his own . will purpofe not to give effeduall grace un- to others , but to permit them under the means of common grace deficere ab werna beatitudine. Thefe are thedecrees which we affirm tobe abfolute, and which we deny to be conditionate or dependent upon the -dif- ferent temporali as of men, forefeen eter- nallyby God. If this Authour will over- throw theft abfolute decrees,he mutt not go about 319
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