324 ' ' The Sablapfarians da1rine creed : Whereas if the events be alions finfull, Gods decrees are permiffive andor- dinative, not decrees of caufing, much leffe neceflitating ,fuchevil anions, as hath been often told him. Be it granted that it isall one infub1tance to decree the mifery of an innocent man, and to involvehim in afinne that hemay 6e brought to mifery: We deny that the op- pofite decrees of Predeflination andPreter- ition arse decrees caufing any innocent mans mifery, or decrees involving,that is, (as this man underftandeth it ) neceffarily caufing anymans finne whereby he is brought to mifery. For in Calvines opinion ( with whom now he dealeth )the decrees of Pre- deftination and Reprobation find all men in the ftate of finne and miferie: That which cometh after is never thecaufe ofthat which went before. As for thofe who confider Ele1ion and Preterition before theabfolute previfionoffinne, theywill never grant that negative Reprobation or Non.eletionwas the adjudging or decreeing of innocent an- gels or men unto eternal! miferyor punifh- ment, but a decree of permitting innocent angels and men to incurre eternal! mifery and punifhment, and of not delivering them or freeing them out of that miferable effare. He is but dim- fighted in this controverfie, who feeth not a formali difference in thofe decrees: So that Godmay juílly dothe one, though
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