away theafe andend ofGods Gifts. 395 ledge in them an antecedent andgratious will to do them good. But we do acknowled>e, over and above this will of complacencie, an abfolute will of efficiencie, by which God hath mercifully decreed to work in fome perfons the will and the deed, and by the means of grace de Pao to bring them unto glory. There two different manners of willing and working the falvation of men, do demonfirate an abfolute will in God of Saving fome, which wecall the ab- folute decree of their Ele6tion ; and art ab- folute will of Permitting others to draw upon themfelves damnation by voluntary abutng the means of grace, which we call abfolute Reprobation. Chryfoflome (who is no depreffour of mans free-will) was not ignorant of this abfolutewill of God, turn- ing & bendingmans whichway he pleafeth: Si Deus voluerit,nullus impedietb. And of bnirav this will S. Auguffine fpeaketh,eIn ccelo & in de horn. to 7'fal. terra non qmed.m vomit cyfecit, quidam vero 50. voluit nonfecit, fedamnia glieeCun vomit ` each.capó fait. AndS. Hierome,fpeaking of the Sa- 97' maritanes, faith,dSi voluifft,ex indevotis dc- d Aped votosfecifet. And that prayer ofBafil is fa- Petr.Diac. mous, e Malos, gthefiumus, bonosfacito; bonos e De in- inbonitate conferva. ©mniaenimpores: quern cares c. so enim volueris, ralvas : & non eft qui refiftat tibi. Since therefore the Scriptures, and the Fathers, and all orthodox Divines, who confetfe
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