away the ufi and end ofGods Gifts. grace : but the truth is, neither in the Re- monftrantsopinion nor inours it ever Both or can nand with Effeí uall grace. Before the worldwas, God had refolvednever to giveunto Cain or Judas or any other perfon reprobated according to the Reprobation allowed by the Remonflrants, that fpeciall grace which fhould caule them tobelieve in Chriff, and free them from their voluntary impenitencie. Yet it is a falle affertion, That God willeth they fhould never believe, ne- ver repent : For here the word Will noteth voluntatem complacenti,e5 and the a is ofbe lievingand repenting are alwaies well-plea- fing and agreeable unto this will of God, though it be his eternal' abfolute will in force mennot towork them. The Sacraments in the Remonflrants opi- nion, do not real an infallibilitie of fpeciall graceor falvation untoany man reprobated from before the foundations of the world were laid : for then they fhould feat a ma- nifeft falfhood. But let them fhew any grace or benefit which a reprobate may partakeby the Sacrament, and is according toour doórineexcluded from it, without his own default, onely by the abfolute willof God, and then he fpeaketh to tome purpofe. Gods giftsby thedecree of Reprobation are neither made unprofitable nor dangero: For (as bathbeen formerlymanifefted) the C c decree 403 P,
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