oppofeth not Gods luftice. though he cannot without croíling the ordi- nary revealed courfe of his Juflice do the other. His fecond reafon why abfolute Repro- obJeé. bation is againff Gods Justice, is, Becaur it maketh God to requirefaith in Chrifi of thofe to whom he bathprecifely inhis abfolute purpof deniedbotha power to believe , anda Chrifi to believein. And Zanchy faith , That every man is bound to believe that he is chofen in Chrift to f lvation, &c. I hold it improper to fay that God corn- Anf . mandeth or bindeth any man to believe his own Predeftination or Eletion , though fore learned Divines fpake in that manner. My reafon is, Becaufe we are bound by way of command to believe that onely which the Prophets and Apoftles were bound to preach unto us : NowGods Minifters ne- ver had, neither now have, any commiffion to preach the Predeftination of this or that fingular perfon unto any man, though they are bound in the judgement ofcharity toex- clude no fingular perfon out of the number of the died. That which the Miniflers of the Gofpel requireof us for the atteining of falvation is faith in Chriii : and that which theycommand us concerning Predeflinati- on or eleL`lion, is -not the immediate belie- ving of it as. of an article of faith which they have in commiffion to preach unto us, X 3 but 325
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