Davenant - Houston-Packer Collection BT810 .D38 1641

q 0 The Sublapfarians doctrine e Part.r Both his abfolutedecree. e scita á Deo,faith arl rc. I 13, . Aquinas f nt contingentia propter caufas proxim s licet fcientia Dei fit neceffaria. And fn he fpeaketh concerning Predeftina_ r etri.23. tion; f ordoprædeflinationis certta eft, & ta- art. 6 men liberw arbitrii non tollitur, ex qua con- tingenter provenit prsede.tinationis efeéus, And concerning the decreeofReprobation; 3. g ßòd reprobates nonpoteflgratiam adipifci, non ea intelligendum f cundùm impo f ibilita- tem,a6flutam, fed conditionatam. Men are no more precifely determined ad union in our doctrine ofPredeftination and Repro- bation then in that ofthe Remonffrants. I,n mente ac voluntate Dei thedecrees areeter- nail, immutable, neceffary, fubjed to no variation or contingency, as well in the one opinion as in the other : .tn temporali exfe- cutione, wheremen are the agents, the a1i- ons which lead tó heavenor hell are fubjed to contingency inboth. To all this we may adde, That Hopeor Fear cannot immediately arife from any de- crees of God altogether unknown to men : But who (hall be faved, or who thatl be damned, as it is onely determined in the eternal! decree of Predeftination and Re- probation, is a thing altogether unknown. E What this Authour meaneth, when dif- puting again!' us he faith, The eternal! de- crees of Divine Predcíljnation and Repro- bation

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