356 The Sublapfi doarine robbeth not God For Gods Wifhes, Expoflulations, Commi-. rations, and the like,it will not follow that theyare feigned and mere delufions, becaufe the eternall immanent decrees of Election or Reprobation areabfolute and unchange- able : For were it fo, the Remonfirants can no better defend themfelves from thefe ob- jelions then we. But it mull here be firfl of all confidered, that Reprobatio¿terna nihil ponit in reprobato. It putteth onely in God a firm decree of permitting fuch perfons to fall into finali finne, and for it a firm decree of condemning them unto eternall punifh- ment. This being granted on all fides, it cannot reafonably be conceived that God Mould properly be faid to wiíh the repen- tance orfalvationof Cainjudas, or any not- ele6ted perfon. They are ( as before hath been touched ) things in the firíl confidera- tion (imply good;and thereforefimplex com- placentia Divina doth properly agree unto them: and that is all which canbe truly in.. ferred from fuch wishes, either in our do- &rine or the dotrine of the Remonfirants. And this is enough todefend them frombe- ing delufory , though God have eternally decreed to permit Cain and Judas to abufe the means of repentance, and to continue in their impenitency. For Expoftulations, we fay they imply dif- plisentian .Divinam againfi fuchperfons and aCtions
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