391 The Sublapfarians doctrine taketh not And thus God is Paid to aim-at or to will and define the cohverfion, juflification. and falvation of thofe who never (hall be con- verted, juflified, or Paved. Neither mull we think that by there men Gods omnipo- tent will is croffed, becaufe his volunta4fim- plicis complacentiee is not fulfilled. For the abfolute will ofGod was, that in fuch per- fons their own free-will might hinder the good effect of his gifts and graces, which he was abfolutely refolved to permit for fome greater good. Laftly there is a will in Godwhich ftriélyand molt properly is called voluntaas beneplacitior hisabfolute will, which is not onely a liking of the good willed unto the creature, and an ordering of fit means whereby the creature (if his own free-will hinder not) may attein it; but a merciful! decree of fo ordering the means and the very will of the creature, that it. fhall infallibly and infruftrately obtein the good end whereunto fuch means were ac commodated. And of this will Ruiz truly affirmeth, X Sola hecvoluntets abfoluta fampli- titer ampleclitur objeaum, ideofoldfimplici- ter 6- ab f lutè meretur nomen voluntatis Bene- placiti. We grant therefore, that in the fe- cond acceptionof theword will God truly willerh; liketh, defireth the repentance, Nth, perfeverance, and falvation of all to whom the Gape! is preached and thrift affetecl $Di/jr.aS. §.4.p. 185.
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