34o The sublapfarians docirine To his further reply we fay, That thede- crees of abfolute Predeftination and Pre- terition dono more draw after them an ine- vitable damnation of any man then the de- crees of Predeftination and Reprobation which the Remonftrants admit of. This bath been already proved , and therefore whilefi he fuppofeth this, he beggeth a falfe principle which muft never be granted him. We confeffe that abfolute Reprobation clogged with thofe calumnies which he layeth upon ir, of Making God the caure of finne, of Neceiiitating mens wills unto their inevitable damnation, muft needs appear odi- ous unto right reafon : But it is calumniati on, not right reafon, which impofeth thefe confequents upon the abfolute decrees of Election and Non- eleaion. Right reafon rightly illuminatedand fanaified will never forbid a Chrifiian to believe that God without any injuftice might abfolutely have eleaed and predeftinated many whom he bath left inter non-elef, or, and might abfo- lutely have left inter non. eleóos many whom he hath predeftinated. L What he faith to our third anfwer , is quite befides the cufhion. Firft, becaufe we maintein that the abfolute decrees do no more hinder God from giving any man a power of believing , or efchewing this or that firne, then theconditionate decrees for which
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