away the ufe andendofGods Gifts: good endwhereunto it isordained, and hin- der them from abufing it to their defiru- aion. Let the Remonftrants grant us anabfo- lute decreepreparing from all eternitieeffe- duall grace, and in time mercifully working the converfion and falvatión of Peter and Paul, and we defire no other abfolute de- cree ofPredeftination. And let them grant us in God an eternall will or decreeof not- preparing efeduall faving grace for Cain and Judas, andof not-working by his fpe- ciall mercy;heirconverfion, but permitting them to continue in their obduration, and we urge no other abfolute Reprobation. How they can deny this I knownot, unleffe they will deny that of the Apoílle, g Cu.* volt miferetur, & quern vult indurat. Which ind uration is by force of our adverfaries re- ferred to this decree of Reprobation which weavouch, and was ufually fo applyed by S. Augu{line. Vide Ruq: De Pr,ed. 6. Rep. dífp. 2. 4. 2. num. 3. p. 19. where he path thefe words, Non effet libera pr.edefiinatio,ß non effet libera negatiopradeflinationis. Parr?), neQatio pr edeflinationis effit ip f reprobatio ncgativa. And Malderus h ingenuoufly ac- lnowledgeththefe twoeternall abfolute de- crees, theone ofpreparing faving grace for the predeftinate, and ofmaking it infallibly efeóuall unto their falvation 3 the other of prepa- 3S3 g7tom.g; Vide Pe. not. pag. 4Tí3. cdifp. ; 8. §. 4. h antifyn.p pig9.I0, I40 E, 13, ufq;adai.
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