away theuf and endof Gods gifts. 397 this Authour having before truly explained how fuch phralcs are to be underftood namely of the end whereunto Reprobates alwayes finally abufe them, and not of the endwhereunto God hath ordained them, he had donemuchbetter tohave afforded Cal-, vines words this charitable conftrudion. And as for Bela ; he denyeth not a proper and true ordinationof the Divinegrace un- to the effeóingof falvation in all towhom it is afforded, nor a true will of complacen- cie in God, that by them it fhould be ufed to that good end : but he denyeth an abfo- lute will in God of faving them by that grace ; and he Iheweth the end which the wicked alwayes come to by abufing it, which is, ut graviús puniantur. That Cal- vine had no other meaning, appeareth by thefe words of his, which fhut-up the fehi- on out of which the former are taken ; G uid Jibi vult'Dominus eos docendo ì quibus nè intelligatur curat ? Confideraundevitium, & defines interrogare. In verbo enim qualif- cunque (it obfcuritas , fatìs tarnen fernper eft lucis adconvincendam impiorum confcientiam. The drift of Calvine is, not to affirm that God worketh either byany pofitive action, or by proper ordination of his word unto any fuch end , that deafneffe, blindneffe, fenfeleffeneffe whereunto the Repróbate grow onely by their own default: But be- caule
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