theaft andendof Gifts: 373 enter in, but partly that he may upbraid them for theirimpoten- cie andpartly that be may increafe their damnation. And im- mediately after to a place in John, i 5.zz.hegiveth this expófi- b Nimirum tion,b Therefore didGodfjieak to tbem,that by the contempt and ideo locutus hatred of hisSonne they might procure the greater damnation. eft iis, ut ex In another place likewife of his Difputations he fpeaketh the contemtu o fame thing foure or five times over very pofitively ; C God di°que pilii dot') propoundbisword to reprobates for noother end then that umgeniti gra- vior conde- they might be left without excnfe. a if the Goffiel be confidered mnatio efl'et, in refpea of intention, theproper endofit, and notthe ac-. e Dhfp. 2.p.3": cidentall, In reference to Reprobates is their inexrurbleneffe. Deus repro. And very confequently do thefe writers fpeak' to their main bus verbum eondu(on. For how can God intend the means or.., gifts of fuum propo- nit, non a15ó grace for the falvationof themwhom he bath by his abfolute fine quàm ut eternal' decree rejeaed utterly from grace and glorie ? inexcuf.lbiies' More particularly (Ic) by th,s Doctrine, reddantur. I. Chriíl came not into the world to rocure the falvation d i Si E- P vau e um of them that .periLh, becaufe they were inevitablyordained confideres' to perifh. ratione in- I I. The word of grace is not fent to them ; or if it be , it tentionis. is Pent that they might flight it or contemne ir, and fo increafe es elle per` their damnation by contemning of it. Which being fo , there fie & non per inconveniences will arife ; t. That God is a (L) mere delu- accidèns in- der ofmiferable men, whom he called] to falvation in the excufabilita- tem one rati -name of his Sonne by the preachingof the word. For what rern rat um'ö elle can he be that fairly pretendeth their good whom he fully intendeth to ruine ? 2. That iviinff.fers (M) are but fal(è witnelfes; becaufe in their miniPcerie theyoffer falvation con.. ditionally to many whole damnation is determined absolute- ly. 3. TheMinifterie of the word cannot leave men with. out excufe. For Reprobates may have this jull (.V plea; Lord, do(' thoupunish to for not believing in thy Sonne, when. thoudid t call its to believe by the preachingofthy wòr.'d? Why? thou did decree to leave us (wofull men) in :Adamsfine; to give us neither power tobelieve, nor a (brig to believe in. Horn cant thou juftly charge to ith Jii one or Merenfe our punifhnent for not believing in him whom thou didit refolve before the world, wars that ínefhotrld never believe in ? Certainly that e Minifteriegiveth menafair excute that isgiven for no other e Iveq: enim end then to leave themwithout exctef . ea fingi po- test homin' reddere inexcufabiles per verbum& Spiritum'vocatio , qux eo tàntúm fine exh, beans ut reddarinexcufabifes, Stead. Brit. de 3. &'4. art. áe.Antecedancis adCon- zrerf..thef1 3' Paz.: q 3, A' a ' III. The
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