drvay the tile andendofGods Gift; Andyet for all this they all agree that thofe gifts and means of falvation which he is pleafed to afford them, have a true and due ordination unto the bringing of fuch men to faith, obedience & eternall life. They have indeed no infallible ordination to fuck an end; for then they were confequent fruits ofPredeftination: but this hindreth not, but they mayhave a true ordination, as all fuch means have which by the Divine more common providence and generali love are inftitutedand afforded for the good of mein, howfoever by the voluntary perverfeneífe of the wicked they are turned to their own hurt. And therefore God may truly fay to thefe as the Apoftle did to the Galatians, q .Quin vos impedivit, non obedire veritati? It 4 Gal. 5.7. was not Gods eternall decree of denying more abundant and effeáuall grace, nor his eternall abfolute decree of permitting them voluntarily to nbufe the grace beftowed up- on them, from whence this contrary ufage ofDivine grace was neceffitated or effeted. That is but a cavill of the Remonitrants. Learned Profper pointethus to the true and onely caufe of this inverting Gods benefits contrary to their proper end r qua beef- r De vow. Y P P Gent.W.z. cia licet obduratis nihil remedii - emendatio- cap.! 3. nis attulerint , pro6ant tauten averfionem eo- rum non Divine fuiffe coniitutionis fedpro- prise voluntatis. Bbz No 389
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