426 theSuola,pfariansdoctrine moted by the Minifters. Secondly,.it is not in vain in regard of the Reprobate : For though it bring none ofthem to falvation, yet fometimes it maketh them do force good things, and abftein from force evil whichotherwife theywould not have done: and it is a means to convia their confcien- ces that their damnation is juft. Lail ofall, the Minifters painful! preaching is not in vain in regard of himfelf : For hereby he cfcapeth that V e mihifa non evangelizavero: he getteth comfort of confcience here, and a crown hereafter. If labour be to no purpofe where the thing is notatteinablebymans labour,then to go-about by our labour to attein thedecree ofElec`Iion for our felves or any other man, is a vain labour : But if labour be profitable when a good thing may be atteined by it, and without it cannot ; then to labour to bring our felves or others to the kingdome ofheaven , is never a vain laboúr : for by this every man may, and without this no man can enter into the kingdome of hea- ven. Every man in the world by doing as S. Paul did, may be asfrire ofatteining ever- hijiing life as Paul was. Neither will the (tertian decree' of Reprobation, be it abfo- luteor be it conditional!, everftand an ob- act jn any mans way, ,
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