oppofeth not Gods luftiee. 333 if we thould charge that eternall decree with caufing their temporali rebellion or deftruóion. They wrong us as much. For let Reprobation be abfolute or conditio- nate, it leaveth the fame poflibilitiesand the fame liberty 'unto the agents. And there are the fame difficulties in according the li- bertie of mans free-will with the infallible prefcience ofGod, which are in according it with the abfolute decrees ofhis Predefti- nation. Thofe who are verted in the wri- tings of the ancient Philofophers, Divines or Schoolmen, cannot be ignorant of this, though fuck as have confined their reading or (at leafr) their belieftoArminius, Cor- í vinus, and men of that tramp, think when I ¡e äde.aArau z theyhave foundedGods eternallPredef}ina- mei,p.z,SZ, tionand Preterition upon an eternall prefci- i6_ c3 ence that theyhave removed all difficulties. 2.2:5!: To his oppugningour anfivers 4 Pig. 314, 64" or the decrees of Election and Repro- I- bation;they have not reference to any ca- pitulations, conditions, or promifes, where- by God tieth himfelf to do thus or thus : but they are immanent eternall decrees, for affording or not affording indebitabeneficia, , or for affording them in greater or leffer meafure, according to the abfolute will and free pleafureof God the giver. There is no well-infrruted underftanr ding
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