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of f his TruthandSincerity. 6r at leafl deny them to be eternall , which no judicious Divine will ever do. For his fpeech uttered in the perfon of God, from whence he would inferre, that if in the decree of Reprobation it becertain & immutable that Cain, Judas, or any other perfons not-eleóed, (hall never repent and be faved, then all which God fàith or doeth for the converting or faving of fuch per- fons is deep difsimulation; many errours may bedefcried in thofe few lines. Firft, he fuppofeth the eternal' ads and decrees of Predeflination and Reprobation to be uncertain quoad eventum, and to be mutable in time into the contrary. Agrolle errour even in the fchool of A rminius. Se- condly, he fuppofeth Non -election or Re- probation tobean adof hatred towards an- gels andmen not.eleded; which hath been proved falfe. Thirdly, he imagineth the de-. crees of Predellination and Reprobation to feat men up under a necessity of doing well and being faved, or of finning andbeing da- mned : whereas they 'land well with free- dome of mans will. Fourthly, he implyeth that whereas God ufeth means to effed any good end in men , if he have eternally de- creed to permit them to abufe thofemeans, & to condemne them èternally for abufing them, that this argueth dißcrbling in God. All thofe erroneous imaginations difcover 2 4 them- 3r9

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