8 The SuUlap frians doc/rive Reprobation is foundedupon prefcience of what a man (hall be founddoing at thevery latt moment ofhis life,will make himmore careleffe : for no man, but in his hopes of future amendment is overfavourable to himfelf, and fo leffeneth the prefent fear which his wicked life might otherwife raife up inhim. For thefecondbranch ofthis reamwhere- by he goeth about to prove that abfolute Predeffination and Reprobation deftroy both Hope and Fear ; it is grounded upon an errour confuted and rejetedby thecom- mon confent ofall Divines, namely, That the eternal' decrees of God concerning fu- ture eventsdo makethe contraryevents un- poffibLe, do make the temporal' and imme- diate agents to do all they do out of an ab- folute neceffitie, having no liberty in modo agendi to abfleinfrom fodoing or to do the contrary.Were this true, theRemonftrants, who acknowledge eternal' and abfolute de- crees upon prefuppofall ofan eternal' abfo- luteprefcience, fhouldby their dotrinede- ftroy hope and fear as well as we. For the Divine eternal' prefcience of futureactions or events inferreth as abfolutea certainty, immutabilitie, neceffitie of fuch events, as the decrees of abfolute Predeftination and Reprobation do. And therefore the School men are as much troubled in anfwering the oue. 1
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