'''.1111! 428 The Sublapftrians (lac-Wine yeares; T will ruine when I lift into the lire, &c. IC. From all the premiffes which this Au- thour hathhitherto inlarged, there is no co- lour ofinferring this conclufion , Therefore the &lute decrees of eternall Predeflination andReprobation mull be abandoned, andArmi- nita his conditionall Predeflination and Repro- bation be imbraced, otherwifeall care of pietie andgoodlivingmapneeds beextingtaifled. Firff, becaufe he is quite miftaken in the fenfe of this word Abflute. eternall Prede- flination is not termed an abfolute decree of favingDavid, Peter, Paul, or any man elfe, as if it abfolved perfons predeftinate from the neceffitie ofufing the means of falvation whichGods revealed word hath injoyned; (This were a dijjolute then anabfleite Predeflination'.) but becaufe God eternally predeftinating David, Peter, Paul , and the reff, bath in his fpeciall mercy abfolutely determined togive them that fpeciall grace which fhall move, finable, and make them ufeall the neceffary means unto their falva- ion. And for eternall Reprobation; it is not termed an abjolute decree of damning Cain, Judas, or the Devil himfelf, as if God were abfolutely refolved to damne them though they fhould never intangle them- felves in any guilt of damnation, and fhould do all thofe good as which God himfelf bath
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