A 328 The Sublapjarians clocirine ele&have a power or poffihilitie to believe or repent at the preaching ofthe Gofpel : which power might be reduced into act, if the voluntary frowardneffe and refflìve- neffe oftheir own hearts were not the onely hindering caufe. Other power then this the Remonfirants know not how to find in all thofewhom themfelves acknowledge to be under the immutable decree of eternall Reprobation. In their opinion therefore as well as in ours, when God commandeth reprobated or non- ele&ed perlons to re- pent, believe and finally to perfevere, his commands fhould be contrary to juftice, becaufefuppofing the perverfeneffe and vo- luntary refifiance of their wills (which God bath decreed to permit) their belie_ving E and perfevering is impoilible. It is not Gods unfeignedwill they Jhouldbe, "i9Jec lieve, becaur he will not furnifb them with necefj4ry power to believe ; and thereforehe cannot juftly tie their to believe : For then he Jhouldtie than to anaa contrary jo his deter- minate will. 4n v., $ Gods unfeignedwill is that will ofappr.o.T bation wherein he maketh known to us in his holy word what he would have us do and what he would have us not do. God was as farre from feigning or fmulation when he called Cain and Judas to repenting p4 believing s wllem lie ceilec David anti hoer.
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