3 bo TheSublapPrians docirine about to prove that God cannot juftly de- cree the damnationof any manbut with re- fpea to his forefeen finnes, which we have alwayes acknowledged ; but he muff op pugne that of the Apoffle, Mireretur cujus vult, quern volt indsrat, and he muff fay that God had never any abfolute decree of bringingPeter by the way of faith, repen- tance, holinefífe, and perfeverance unto the kingdomeof heaven, but onely out of Pe- ters free-will he forefaw him a penitent, faìthfull,holy,perfeverant man unto the Lift gafp. And he muff likewife defend,that there was no abfolute decree in God of withhold- ing from Judas that effetuall faving.grace which was mercifully prepared for Peter, and had it been prepared for Judas, would as infallibly have wrought his falvation as it did Peters. Here is the very knot of the controverfie , which this Authour in his whole book never cometh near. But now let us come tohis difcourfe of the Divine Juffice: Whereunto before we give parti- cular anfwers,fome things muff be premifed in general'. Juftice in a generali fenfe is an equality or conformity corn obligationeJett debitocujury And he is juif that bath a coniant andper- petuall will of giving unto every one his due. Now becatcfe the 4 words duet and debi- ei
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