Davenant - Houston-Packer Collection BT810 .D38 1641

33 2 The Sublapfarians doctrine quoadapplicationem,ficrediderit.TbeRenaon_ ifrants dare not promife falvation unto any perfons reprobated according to their de- cree founded upon previfion of their finall infidelity and impenitency, but under thefe conditions, Si crediderint & pcenituerint We affure themof faluation under thefame conditions, notwithflanding the abfolute decree oftheir Non-election. The Remon- flrants cannot affigne any grace or gracious operationofthe Spirit of God which may ftand truly with that decree Of eternall Re- probation which they admit, and will not íland with that which weadmit. It is there- fore as true that Chrill died for all men ac- cording to out doctrine of Predeflina- tion and Reprobation as according unto theirs. G. Abfolute Reprobation maketh God un- 'ohjecï' ruff, becaufe it maketh himpunfi men for omifion ofan atl which s made impofsible by his own decree, &c. nj v. A fallacy obtruding that fora caufe of mens finne which was no caufe. Gods de- creesgo before the events decreed : But in malts it is onely antecefsio ordinis non çaufa_ litatis. The decreeof Reprobation as the 1 .emonflrants put it, is eternall and immu- table, it is antecedent to theirad offinning or misbelieving, which are all temporall; and y4 they would fay we wronged them if

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