away the u fe andendof Gods Gifts. rd in primi ho,ninis prcevaricatione vitiate, etiam inter beneficia, inter prxcepta, & inter aiàxiláa Dei, f mper in deteriorem eft procli- vior voluntatem, eui committi non eft aliud quàm dimitti. So that if in the eflablifhing ofthe eternal! decrees ofEleé:ion and Re- probation God had been a forefeer onelyor a looker-on how everyman cómitted to the freedome of his own will would behave himfelfin theufing ofgrace fufficiently ad- miniflred, the whole world (if Profper tell us true) had been under thedecree of Re- probation. That is faid to be Gods aim in beflowing means of grace upon any man, which the nature ofthegrace fhould lead a man unto, though God in giving that grace had not a fmpie and abfolute will to make it effetuall unto the falvation of the receiver ; nay, thoughGod had an ab%lute will ofpermit ting the receiver to abufe it finally to his own damnation. Where Gods will is thus affected, there adminiílration of grace may and doth ftand with eternall Reproba- tion. Touching the Sacrament ofBaptifrne, or anyother beneftswhichGod affordeth unto mennot-eleaed;theend intended,is the good effect whereunto they were ordained. But with this end of the thing it Celf may (land an ablblutedecree ofGod , of leaving any man 38c
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