Davenant - Houston-Packer Collection BT810 .D38 1641

38© The Sublapfriansa'ec7rine taketh not this Authour tohave .muted upon, namely, De vac. e Cur hocdonorfine quonemofalvus eft, ab eo qui omnes falvare volt, non omnibus confe_ rater. C As for thatfufírciencieofgrace which our Divines at Dort granted to accompany the preaching of the Gofpel, it doth little ad- vantage the Remonífrants, who undertake to prove a fufficient adminiítrationof fàving grace where the found of the Gofpel and the name of Chrift was never heard of. And they acknowledge no decree of Reproba- tion where fuch an adruiniftration hath not gone before. This is more then the Di- vines at Dort or the Jefuites at Rome dare avouch. But let us grant, that fufficient means to produce faith,and repentance and falvation were adminiftred to every fingular perfon in the world , yet the abfolute decrees of Elution and Non-ele6tion may ftand firm and good For he is abfolutely predeftinated to whom God adminiftreth grace with a merciful' intent of making it efpec uall unto falvation : and he is abfo- lutely not-predeftinated or reje ted , to whom God in timeadminiftreth grace with anabfolute purpofeof leaving the god(' fuc- ceffe to the goodhusbandry ofhis own free- will, which is in nothing more carelcffe or 7"6.).7)e prodigal' then in misfpending, wafting and vo,21.1. g. c.. quenching Gods grace. f .tta humana natu9 ra

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