36o TheSublapf docirine rolBethnot God themfelves in that lhort fpecch. And that which yet more difcovereth the weakneffe of his inference; The eternal! and immuta- bledecrees ofPredeftination and Reproba- tion (as they are conceived by the Remoct- f}rants themfelves) fhould make all Gods temporall f ayings and dealings with repro- batedperfons, feigned and hypocritical!, if there were any manner of ftrength in his manner of reafoning. The abfolutedecreeofReprobation tru- ly underftood doth no more oppofe the truthof Evangelicall prom; fs, then the Ar- minian or Remonfhrants Reprobation : nei- ther doth it make the conditions one jote leffep ofsible then theirs: neither dot h it de- ny any will in God of filch mens converfi- on or falvation which they according to theiropinion can truly affirm to be in God. Weprofeffe ingenuoufly, that theeterna!! decree of Non- eleéion or negative Repro- bation, doth put in menteaut voluntate Divi- na, anabfolute denial! of that fpeciall effe- c ual gracewhereby the Creatour intendeth to bring his creature infallibly unto glory. And if the Rcmonf} rants fay that the eter- nall Reprobation of fingular perfons (as it is laid downby themfelves) loch not contein çhe fame negation, they fay that which they Orenever able tomaintein. Let us clear this byexampled Before
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