ofhis Truth and sincerity. 347 be as red asfcarlet,l will make them 04 white as wooll.Think not that I would haveyou die: for I [wear , .í1s I live, I will not the deathof him that dyeth ; I mould have no mart to peri(h, but all to come to repentance. I befeechyou there- fore be reconciled. I have cryed and called unto you, I have a long time waited uponyou, that ye might repent , and Hill am I knocking at the doores ofyour heartsfor entrance. O that there were a heart in you to fear me and keep my com- mandments, that it might go well with you for ever. what Pall I do unto you? how fhall I intreat you ? will ye not be made clean? when will it once be ? Can God fpeak thus to reprobates, who by his own decree fhall never repent nor be Paved, without the deepeft diffimulation ?' That which is ufually laid to clear the abfolure decree from this crimination, is, That God vvifheth the falvation of the reprobate ferioufly, but not abfolutely : he would have thole men faved who are not faved, but yet upon condition they will repent and believe : And therefore , though they do perifla, yet God is candid and Gncere in his offers of falva- tion to them: for therefore do they parifh, becaufe they per- form not the condition, and not becaufe God offereth not falvation ferioufly unto theme But this anfvver is too (port. It is true (F) indeed, God will have all men to be faved upon condition oncly that they will believe and repent, according to that fpeech of S. Am- brofe, Deus vult omnes falvari, fi dam^ ipft velint, God would have all to be Caved, if they themfelves would. For if he would abfolutely have it fo, what can hinder it ? who bath reffted his will ? And it is true likvvife, that a conditional) promife may be ferious as well as an ablolute : but then the condition muff be poffible to them to whom the promife is made, and the performance of the condition muff be a part of Gods will as well as the falvation promifed; or elfe the promife cannot be candid and fincere. Conditio eft oblatapo- te(las aliquid eligendi, A condition is the offer of a rower of choice. Where there is no libertie of choice afforded, there is no true condition appointed. In fubftance it is all one to offer a courtefie under a condition (G) not pofiìble, and not to offer it at all; and in circumftance it is much vvorfe. In fubilance all one. The Lawyers tell us that a contra&made fub conditions impræ(labili nullos æ.1imatur,under a condi- tion not poflible,isefteemedno bargain. And theLogicians rule is That ° a condition ll propo(irien which hath an im- poffible o Condítio- nalis propo- fitio quæ ha bet annexam conditionem impoflibi- lem, æg,ui- pollen pliclter ne- ganti.
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