42 2 The sublapfarians dotirine proceeding from their free-will and upon deliberation. So it is true, it lay not in the power of Judas or 'Cain to difannull the eternall decree of their Reprobation &Da- mnation ; for omne sternum necefarium immutabile: yet it lay in Cains power freely to commit or not commit a murder upon his own brother, and in Judas his free-will to betray or not betray his Mailer ; and fo in all other finners , to choofe or not to choofe the doing ofthofe things which pro- cure their juft damnation. g That mens actions about ends andthings de- termined by Gods abfolute unrevealed decrees are invain andfruitle , is a vain and falfe opinion , and explodedby the very heathen under the nameoft pis h6ps or ignava ratio, cuifipareamos , nihil eft omnino quodagamus in vita. For though our endeavours donot make them otherwife quoad eventum then God had fore-determined , yet the thing was fo determined by God as it neither could nor fhould haveever cóme into effect without fuch at%ons and endeavours of men. His inftances areas frivolous and farre from,the purpofe, as his opinion is fromall truth. For his inftance in the devils now damned , it is not to the point. He íhould haveinftanced in the angels not- elected be- fore their damnation, and have Chewed that their obedience had beenvain andfruitle(fê; and 1 cic. be fato.
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