may the afeandendofGods Gifts life ; how Both it croffe the end of filch gifts & graces as are temporally afforded to the Non-ele&, that God bath made an ab- folute decree to permit that abufe of grace which he could have prevented, and which he foreknew from all eternity would follow if by more fpeciall grace it were not pre- vented Vide facobi Baii änflitut. lib. 1. C. t 18 I I9, &c. gu fque ad 125. The end whereunto Gods long-fuffcring fbould ferve, and whereunto it is fitly ordi- nated, is the leading ofmen to repentance. But there is no contradiction betwixt thefe two propofitions, 7he endof Gods admonitionand patience towards Cain,was to lead him unto re- pentance ; God had ab f lutely decreed , not to give untoCainthat f eciall efecluallgrace with- out which God knew he would continue finally impenitent. In this decree Non.eleé?-ion is involved, and this is antecedent to the abso- lute previfion of Cains finsll impenitencie; and yet it made not the means of grace of fered unto him deluforie or contrary to any decreeofGods will. The decree ofnegative Reprobation bin- dreth not but thegifts bellowed upon fuch perfons may have a proper and fitting ordi- nation unto the atteinrient of eternall life, fi tali gratis cooperari velint. Thus were they ordinated in the non-ele& angels, al- though before theywere created God had 13 b abfo- 387
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