away theof andendof Gods Gifts. withal! they acknowledge an eternal! abfo- lutewill in God of permitting them to ab- ufe them to their owndeftruaion. In their judgement therefore fuch an abfolute eter- nall decree is not contrary unto the end of Gods gifts beftowed upon perfons not- ele . Leflius, a ftiff defender ofPredeftina- tion and Reprobation founded upon prefci- ence of mens finali perfeverance or finali impenitencie , when he is premed with the argument taken from that fpeciall vocation of the Predeftinate, which is termedvocati, fecaundùmpropoftum,he is forced to confeífe, I that others dicuntur vocati non fecundáam propofitum, quia nonell talepropofitum in Deo ad cujus impletionem ilia vocatio referatur. Huic tannennon repu.nat,guin fit inDeofnce_ rum propofitum & defaderium falutis eorum conditionatum ,, fi gratia cooperari velint. I marvel how it fhould be contrary unte the endofGods graces or gifts, when we fay, According to his eternall decree he calleth the Predeftinate or Elea with an abfolute purpofe tomake the means ofgrace of e u- all to their falvation ; and he calleth the Reprobate, nonfecundùm talepropofitum, but onely under a conditionate decree, Si gratis cooperari velint , which from all eternitie he foreknew they would never do: I fay it is a marvel, how the fame thing avouched by us fhould be contrary to the aft andendof Gels 385 Opufc. De Præd. & %pr. pag. 573-
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