away theufe andend oo fGods Gifts. their fouls. And they further taught; That where fuch fpirituall and fupernaturall means fail to produce thofe ends, no pofi- tive, atuall, proper or true caufe can be al- ledged befides their own defeEtive and re- bellious will. The faying of Profper is unadvifedly brought-in by this Authour. For every man knoweth that Profper, as well as his Mafter S. Auguiline, held abfolutePredeftination and Preterition or negative Reprobation and therefore in his opinion the abfolute decree ofReprobation is not contrary unto any ends which God hath in bellowing the means of grace and falvation upon thofe which abufe them : For it is impoffible that God fhould croffe himfelf in his decrees, gifts, or alions. Again, Profper, in affirm- ing a gracious vocation to beafforded unto all thofe who have beenenlightned by the preaching of - the Gofpel, doth imply, that where the Gofpel was never preached nor Chrift known ,there is no fuch vocation urf- to faving grace. How this will agree with Arminius his new-moulded Predeftination and Reprobation, who in his third decree bringeth-in God decreeing arnedia ad re//pi- D Q7æ f entiam&fldern nece/fariafrsffrcienterbeffica- citer adminiftrare,it will paílir this Authours 47' cunning to tell us. Proper propoundeth a queftion whichhad been here more fit for this 379
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