hindrethnot Pietie and agodly life. ties, i.ltmuft bemainteined with a great deal of pains and care, or elfe it will be loft again. To the reteining of it is required a continual) indeavour to keep a clear confcience, which motive to®bedence then hiss, therefore ozelfeheyevvillf dca- ílr g nothing. Thirdly, they that defend and teach this abfolute Repro- bation fay t ae e a and deny any man can b l ved, except good y live hog nefily. Somuchwas alío faid in the behalfofEpicurus, vimThat he denied that any man that lived not honeffly, could live Cic. Czcè pleafantly. But Tully anfvvereth roundly, n' As if !cared m ro e what he affirmed) or de sieth : this 1 ask, what is meet for fíemp, 2aí him to fay who placed) happinrffe ìtt plea(uï e. And fo it mat- ego id cu- tereth notwhat there men teach, hut what they shouldteach rem quid ne- e if they ewill Cyeak confequenely to their own concluGon . get s illud quxro, quid An Anfiver to his fourth Reafn, lupquii rum That it isprcjudiciall to Pietie. mum Uonur,t putat, con- fentaneum F abfolute Prede:lination and Reproba- fit dicer!to tion taken in that true fenfe which for- merly bath been explained, be of it felf fubjed to there mifchiefs, we will renounce it ; or if it be more {ubjed then their condi- tional' 1'rédeílination the decrees ofEle prefuppofng onely that lion and Reprobation are eternal' and un- changeable quoad finsula Rps f rant will gut non-elec40 ; which noRe or can deny who underflandeth what the very terms of the Divine Fledion andRe- probation do import. That Hope and Fear lead men unto virtu- ous actions, and reílrain them from vitious s 413
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