43o The Sublapjarians doarîne wealth to be vain and fruitleffe. Yet in temporall or external' good things there ,were more colour a great deal to ground idlenefl'e upon Gods eternal! determination; becaufe let a man takeneverfo good courfes and fo truepains to attein honour or wealth, he Mall never compaffe it if God have otherwife appointed : But in fpirituall and eternal' bleffings , let any man take the courfe and ufe the means which God bath prefcribed to attein them, and hemay affure himfelf they are infallibly appointed for him. 3. Thirdly, becaufe experience teacheth the contrary to his fuppofition, though we ad- mit the eternal' abfolute determination of God concerning this fingular perlons falva- tion were revealed unto him extraordinarily by God himfelf. For the certain know- ledge of Gods abfolute determination to wive eternal' life, would not in a well-dif- poled mind produce careleffeneffe or idle- neffe, but a religious care and fervency of fpirit in doing all fuch actions as further man in the way unto life, and of removall of fuch obfiacles as would hinder them. It is commonlyheld by Divines,that the blef- fed Virgin, S. Paul, and force others had an extraordinary revelation of their abfolute `eietition unto eternal' life; and yet none of tilde concluded that all their pains and la- bour
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