388 The Sublapfariansdotirine taketh not abfolutely decreed topermit their volunta-. ry apoflafie, and to punifh them for it with eternall mifery. Thus the end ofthole ex- cellent gifts and graces which Adam had bellowed uponhim in his Bate ofinnocencìe was tocontinue him in obedience to Gods will, and fo to bringhim with his pofteritie unto eternall life; and yet God hadeternally decreed to permit bothhim and them to fall into theguilt ofeternal! death. Divine titer. nail decrees therefore, whereupon may in- fallibly be inferred the abufe of grace tem- porally offered , do not croffe the end for which fuch grace is adminiftred toperfons not-ele6ted. The Jeluites theznfel.ves cannot deny, that the eternall decree of negative "Ruin; Reprobation is s a negation illorum medio- rum quibus Deus pnefcivit adhibendum fuiffé confnfilm; huj úfque prim cauram ofJe libe- ramDei voluntatem. Towhichpurpofe are °De bono thefe words of S. Augufline, o Quibus non Perf. 6%11. vultfUbvenire, nonfubvenit; de quibus in rua preedeJtinatione occult e guidon Jédjof é aliad judicavit. And elfewhere, r Si vellet o pia .sipr. j i pf rum qu.z. (nempe non-pnedefliñatorum) mifereri, pofjet itá votarequomodo illis aptum of jet, ut & mo- verentur & intelligerent rquerentur. All thefe acknowledge an abfolute eternall de- cree ofwithholding all fuck grace from all perlons not-eleCted as God knoweth would effeually convert than and five them. Arid
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