away theupandendofGods Gifts . fed ipfemet eftfinis refpeelu omnium qux ab eo fiunt. It is therefore a falfe imagination to think that the Divine will is moved by anything but by it felf. And as God him- felf is the end cujuflibet volitionis Divine, fo is he likewife cujuflibet operationis Divine. Prov. i 6.4. The Lordhathmadeall thingsfor hisown rake, yea the nickedfor the day of "evil. 2. Secondly, it is tobe noted, That al- beit Godseternall volitions or decrees de- pend not upon any temporali object or caufes as the prime motives thereunto ; yet God by his eternall abfolute decree may and dothordain that this event in the tem- porall execution (hall not follow but upon that going before : as, that the benefit of eternall life, in the aduall introduction unto the heavenly kingdome, (hall depend upon the a is ofrepenting, believing andperfeve- ring ; and that the punìfhment of eternall death, in the atuall abje6tionof men into hell, fhall depend upon their own finali im- penitencie and fin-guiltineife. This is not ro make the eternall decrees of Eleäíion and Reprobation dependent upon the forefeen contingent as of mans freewill, as the Re- monarants do ; but to make temporal' events, ads, or things, one to depend con- ditionally upon another for their being or not-being in time, which we willingly ac- knowledge. A a 3 Thirdly, 375
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