hindreth not Pietie andagodly life. 427 No man who by the, preaching of the I word is excited to good works hath at any time or ever 'hall find them fruitlefJ' or vain. Denece ffriis nemo deliderat;and there- foreno man deliberateth how to get him- felf predeilinated: but tobe faved, is a thing depending uponour free actions, which re- quire deliberation. Here he difcovereth his erroneous con- ceit of Predeftination and Reprobation, namely, That Predeftination is an abfolute appointmentofmen to enjoy the kingdome of heaven,whether they live well or ill ;and that Reprobation is alto an abfolute ap- pointment of fore men to the torments of hell, whether they live well or ill. Such an abfolute Predeftination and Reprobation we difclaim and detth. If a wife manwereperfwaded(as heought tobe ) that he fhall never be one farthing richer then God bath determined , yet he would ufe the ordinary means , as knowing that men cannot bebrought to the end de- termined byGod but by ufing fuch means without which God bath alto appointed that fuch an end (hall not be effected. As if God had determined in heavenand revealed to man upon earth that he fhall live fifteen years juft, and neither more nor leffe , he were a fool or a mad-man that fhouldcon- çlude, L ill neither ca& nor drink theft fifteen,
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