41.o The Sublapjarians dotfrine dinances for the preventingofa Kingdomes ruine,.or thepro- curing of its profperitieand continuance, (for it would be to little purpofe as once a famous privie Counfellour told our late (ten Elifabeth ) but would follow the Poets counfel , i??Rniliva. Solvitemortales animos, curifque levate, Tótquefupervacuisanimum deplete querelis: Fata regunt orbem, cola giant. onania lege. From thefe three premiffes ( ) layed together it followeth direaly, That the do&riveof an abfolute decree, which de- termincth mens ends precifely, is no friend at all to a godly Life. For if events ablolutely decreed be unavoidable, if mens actions about unavoidableends be unprófitable, if in unpro- fitable imployments men will have no hand willingly; who - foever they be that believe and confider this, will have nothing to dowith the praelice ofgodlineffe : For their ends being ah- fol-utely-p-i-tched and therefore unavoidable, they will conclude that their labour in religion will beunprofitable, and fo will f Inffir.l.3 not labour in it at all. e.a 3JE .,14. III. That which hath been Paid maybe yet confirmed by Si quis it two witneffes. The one of them is (L ) Mr Calvine : Who plebem corn- in his Inf}itutions hath therewords ; fi f any man, faith he, pellet, non fb ereditis, ideo ould [peak tabus to the people, If there be any amongyou that Lt, quia jam believe not, it is betaufe ye are ordained to deflrut inn; this man Divinitus ex- would not onelÿ cherilb (lothfulnejq'e, but wickedneffe itio prxde- Which is as much t:: fay (me thinks) as this, Ifa man fhould ífinati eíflis; is non modò fet forth the doetrine of Reprobation in its colours , and ex- igriaviam tò- plain it topeople in a clear and lively fafhion, he would here- vet , fed en- by open a doore to liberty and profanenefiie. Theother wit. 2m indulger analitiæ. another flamp, nefhe is a man of the miferable Landtgrave of g Rea. /. r. Thuring: Of whom it is recorded by Heifterbachius, that be- De men2o-. ing by his friends ad:nonifhed of his vitious converfation and i'1Z'`. 27pzá° dangerous condition,he made them this anfwer, g IfI be elec7- Si lin?tus ed, no foams can bereave me of heaven; if I be reprobated, no film, nuiia gooddeeds canhelp me to heaven. peccatapo- I conclude therefore,That by this opinion (which is taught teruntmtht for one of Gods principali truths) Religioneither is or may regnum ere- lorum ,safer- be made a very great lofer : which is my fourth generals Rea- m: fi nr'æ- fon againft it. feieu ; ñuaa But there arethree things which are dually anfwered to vin - op"-a dicate this opinion frpm this crimination. F,a-ft That many ¡lend vale.- (M ) of themwhich believe and defend this dodrine, are ho- bunt confer- re. ly and good men: and therefore of it fclf it openeth no way for liberty
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