393 The Sublapf rrans dollrzye taketh not caufe God, who could fofren their hearts, and would if they were in the number of his elegy, bath ordained not to do it this ordination is intimated by the event which perpetually followeth upon it, namely, deafneífe, blindneffe, &c. So that all which hyide §. Calvine intendeth is this, h That where God ra,eris- p bath not com rifed men within his merci- aF sem fuam full decree ofPredeflination, there he hath explicat. decreed to hold-off his hand from effedu- ally opening their ears and eyes; and then fio vitio ohfiardefcunt, &c. And Bela had Eev,0d no other intent, but to (hew, That the P"T"' 3. °' word preached unto the Reprobate, non eó 6- de Pre- deg. dafï. ufque conjunclum cum Spiritss miniflerio, ut paz° 43l. illos verá fide, quei propria rotá elec i 1 re® probis dignofuntur, Chriflout palmites frugi- feres inferat. Whence followeth that wo- full event, ut juflo exitio devoti magis ac ma- is reddantur a:yam:A.17us. For Maccovitts ; if his fpeeches tend to (hew the intentional! end of the gofpel preached, and not the eventual] fucceffe,we utterly difclaim his opinion. For God pro- perly intendeth no end of his volitions or anions but himfelf; unto whofe glory all things have naturammediorum not intenti ,fn;c. The intention therefore ofmeans by God unto any lower or inferiour end , is nothing elfe but the fitneffe of'filch means confìdered in themfelves (and not ahfed for
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