344 Th4 Sublapf. doctrine robbeth God why: For he maketh te promife his motive to perfvvade o; bediente to the command : and it would not have reached home, ifit hadnot refpeaed all chofe to whom the command was given. Noman reprobate or other,thinketh any leffe. Every man that heareth the Gofpel preached, takethohimfelf to be under thegracious offerof eternal' life, and upon thefe thoughts bath tome delires, form. hopes of it, and f}irreth up himfelfto forfake fame pleating finnes which othervviiè he would not part with, and do .Come unwelcome duties whic}i otherwífe he vvould not do. But now Gods meaning is (by this doarine) that the moil of chofe to whom he offereth his grace and glory, (hall have neither. Andfo Pifcator faith , k De prod. k Grace is not offered by Godeven to thole who are called, font,S4.. lira. n,ith a meaning togive ìt but to theelea onely. In the fame pag 74.Gra. g i ,, non of- book he bath fuch another fpeech ; i Though God inwords fertura Deo protefí` be wouldhave reprobates to believe,yet indeedhe will ßbvlocatis_ not have them.Tlieymake God to deal with men in matters dnìmo tom- of falvation as the poets feigne the gods tohave dealt with nlunicandi poore Tantalus : They placed him in aclear and goodly river earn, fed fo- up to the verychin, and under a tree whichbare muchCweet lis elefris and pleafant fruit that did almof} touch his lips : but this they Deus repro.. did with a purpo(e that he fhould tall ofneither: for when he bos credere, put his mouth to the water to drink , it waved away from licèt linguá him;&vvhen he reached his hand to the fruit to have eatenof Profrearur fé it,ic withdrew it kifprefently out of his reach, fo as he could 3:'pz6 neither eat nor drink. Jufl fo dealeth God with reprobates, by their doarine: He placeth them under the plentiful! meansof falvation, offereth it to them fo plainly that men would think they might have it when theywill , and yet in- tendeth fully they 'ball never have it , withholding from them.either the firfl grace that they cannot believe, or the fe- cond grace that they cannot perfevere. Didnot chofe gods delude Tantalus? Yes doubtleffe. And if God do Co with re- nat. 1. probates what Bothhe but delude them and differnble with S Fie cap. them inhis faired and. likeliefl offers of falvation that he .3e, a. l?erí}cinbere maketh there? And this do Zanchius and Buccr grant by evi. Deurn men- dent confequence, asappearcth by a Cpeech or twoof theirs, dacii, qui which cannot fland.with their conclulton , and thereto e (1 illi in fe ver vbo o e fu ofe fell from them. Zanchius telleth as round- dicrt il falurem ejus, 1pp unwaril y y, that every man who is called , is bound to think that he :ti in hune is elated, othervvife he doth offer great injury to God, and linem ad r dectyre h'm of lying, whichfaith to him in histword that ñïiurst he deret , 1, der;:. F bù f 'zluatior, and for this carafe hsth calledhit;. In
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