annly the ufeandendofGods Gifts. 393 offered. But in the lait andmolt proper ac- ception , God willeth theperfeverance and falvation onely of his Ele& , in whom he never ceafeth working till the happy effeé be produced. Our Divines at Dort granted a true and ferious will inGod according to the fecond acception ofthe wordwill, but not accord- ing to the laft. Which willfimplicis compla_ centiá may ífand with abfolute Reproba- tion. If this Authour can be content to ac- knowledge that for a true, ferious and node- luforie will , which affordeth the creature means of repenting, believing andbeing Pa- ved, though under an eternal! abfolute de- cree of permitting the finali difobedience and perdition of the creature, we will free him from the trouble of anfwering the pla- ces ofScripture, and with him embrace the interpretation of Damafcene, who telleth us, that albeit the Scriptures do in fuch pla- ces feem to make Gods benefits caufes of mans finne and ruine, yet they mull be uti- derftood Y ixßanr.s not aino71/4oyig . A rhy/ician doth give his patient phyfick with an abfolute will tocure, fo farre as his skill and abilitiewill fl retch: But Goddoth not alwayes give the, means of falvation un- to all men out of his abfolute will : for then all fhould be cured and faxed. 9mnia qux- Bb q. cuì que YDe arthod. fide, lib.4. cap. 2e. H ZPfal.13 f.
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