Davenant - Houston-Packer Collection BT810 .D38 1641

3S6 The Sublapprians do1rine talethnot Gods graces bellowed upon fuch men, and affirmed by theinfelves, no fach inconveni- ence íhould follow upon it. Molina him_ felf, when he cometh to the point, grant- eth in God fuch eternall di1tina decrees of preparing effetuall grace for fome and not- preparing for others , as inferre abfo- lute Predellination and Reprobation in that fenfe wherein we defend it, and contradi& that conditionate Eleaion which the Re- monllrants defend , depending upon an an- tecedent abfolute previfion of the future good and bad as of men. His words are thefe;mPuntumverbprædeftinationis vN abyf- sss infcruta6ilis Divini confilii in eo font pa- pa, quódcion Dens infinitas alias providendi non-predefinatra rationes noverit , quibu/spro eadern ipforum libertate in vitam devenifrent æternam,fti 7 ntq;provndeprcedefinati;itémq; infinitas alias novent rationesprovidendi prx-. deflinatis, quibus fuá libertate beatitudinem amitterent , fuifféntque reprobi : pro fila tan- túm libertate, & nonpro qualitate ests liberi arbitrii previ f , ne ut conditions quidemfine quanon, eues providendi modem utrifque ele- gerit per quernprdvidit illos in vitam aternam profua libertatenonperventuros, &c. Ifit he not contrary to the end and ufe of Gods gifts, out ofhis own free-will to provide for fome menno other grace but fuch as he eternally knew would never bring them to eternall life 5 m De Conc. peg. 368.

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