_ 3i6 The su6lapfari4ns doclrinetaketh not 3. Thirdly, It is to be obferved, That when we fay this -or that is theend of fuch an actionof God or offuch a gift ofGod, we muff not conceive that it was the end which caufed the Divine volition, but it is the end whereunto men fhould ufe fuch gifts, and the benefit which they ought to make of fuch temporali gracious actions vouchfafed unto them. So that when we fay, God giveth or doth fuch a thing to futh anend, the meaning is, The things confider- ed in their own nature, as theycome from God, have a fitneffe or aptneffe to produce fuch an end. And thus God is Paid in his gifts or actions to intend an end two wayes: The one 'is in the order of common Provi- dence, where the means have a naturali fir- neffe to produce fore good end, though abufed by men they oftentimes produce the quite contrary, God foreknowing it and decreeing to permit it fo tobe. The other is the order of fpeciall Predestination , where fuchgifts or actions of God have not onely a fitneffe in their own nature topro- duce fuch good effe s or ends, but they have from the abfolute will of God an effi- eacitie actually and infallibly producing thofe intended ends. Ofthis intention onely that rule muff be underttood, v Juicguia Deus fmpliciter volt, fit ; and that ofCa- jetane, 6 Nuirs ordo defciens à proprio iz , 'entm lot
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