hindreth not Pietie ant agodly life. 43 t boor for atteining it was fruitleffe and vain. And if God had revealed to Judas (which in his wifdome he bath judged unfit) the eternal' immutable decree of his Reprobati- on, yet íhould none of his endeavours to do good & efchew evil havebeen unprofitable. Fourthly, becaufe if men lhould reje t theabfolute, irreverfible, irrefiftible decrees of Gods eternal' Predeftination and Repro- bation which this Aúthour oppofeth, under pretenfe that thereby all actions and means are made vain and fruitleffe untomenwhere the ends and things arst predetermined , the Predefination and Reprobation grounded upon Gods eternal' prefcience would lie as open to the Pelffame objection : Which if it be ofno validitie againft the Remon- (rants, neither is it againft us. For firft of all, as for the eternal' decrees of abfolute Election and Reprobation; nijiil ponunt in eleaia at reprobatis they onely fuppofe in God a determination of bringing the one infallibly untoeternal' life,and ofpermitting the Otheras infallibly to come íhort ofeter- nall life , and by their own finfull ads to plunge themfelves into the gulf of eter- nall death. In the Remonftrants decree of eternal' Predeílination and Reproba- tion the fame determination of God con- cerning the fame particular, men with the farne infallibilitie and immutability of their
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