of his Truth andSincerity: In which peechhe plainly irnplyeth, that if God call a man whom hehash abfolutely reje&-led. , he Both but delude him when he calleth him. The like fpeech hath Bucer ; n ..4 marl n Bucer. he muff believe that he is prede(tinate, or elfe hemaketh God to c.8,ad Rona: mock him »Then he called, him. A man therefore that is not 9u. de ;'ræd. predef}inate but an abfolure reprobate , when he is called to , uodDeo falvation,isbut deluded:It is the neceffary refultance of theirdebes, eft ut tpeeches.If a creditour (hould refolveuponnoterms to forgive credas etrc his debtour one farthingof his debt, and yet makehim offers to ab co to remit thewhole tlponCome conditions,and bind hisoffers prædeftina- tum. Nam id with a deepand folernn oath, would not we fay that he were ni credas , a rank diffembler and a mere deluder of his poore debtour ? facis eum ri-. We can fayno leffeof God, if it be true that he hath irrevo- bi, cùm to cabl y particular , and y et decreed at nohand toCave fuck men ad voca faluteer m G p promifeth and fweareth thathe will fave them if th will be. evvangeliutn# lieve his promifes and repent. What can luch oathe andpro- illudere miles be but mere delufionsofmiferable men ? Ili. In his (C) Threats and Comminations in by this doctrine is God made.to be hollow and deceitfull.ror againft what finnes are threats denounced ? Alwayes againft a uall frnnes : We neverread that they are thundered out againft us for . orìginall finne: They intimate therefore that the Cnnes for v ich men go to hell ; are their at uall tranf'greffions. But if it, be true that God decreed men tohell for originali C ,finne, that which thofe threats import and lignifie is not true, and Co God is not fincere in them. Befides , all threat- ' , flings imply that the evil threatned may be avoyded : for therefore are they denounced , that men might by them be brought to repentance , and fo efcape the evils threatned : But if Come men be peremptorily ordained to deftruetion, then their de(}ruaion cannot be prevented: and fo the threat_ nings ofdamnation in this refpea alto do lignifie an un- truth , and God in them dealeth not plainlywith men. I V. In all theCD) other things before mentioned is God full of guile trio (by thisopinion;) namely, in his r. Pal - fionate Males, that even thole men might repent that repent not,and might be Caved that through their impenitencie are not Paved. Of there we reade, Deut ç. aq. 0 that theretvere filch a heart in them to fear me, that it might go well with them. and Prat. 8 t. i t. O that my people had hearkened , and d*rael had walked in my wayes, &c. and Efay 48. 18. O that thou had(i hearkened to my commandments,&e. 2. In his mournful' Èxpollulatións. Efay ;. 3, Jrtdge, I práyyou, beiweea 345
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