hindreth not Piety andagodly life.. but a j uft reward of thine idleneffe and pro- faneneffe. Lail ofall, the immutabilityofall Gods eternall decrees whatfoever is a thing out of all queftion amongfl orthodoxDivines ( I neednot except Vorflius the Remonfirant, becaufe no man reckoneth himamong( or- thodoxDivines :) I wonder therefore how this Authour fhould think he bath laidany thingagainft theDivine abfolute decrees of Predeftination and Reprobation, onelybe- caufe theyareperemptory,inevitable, irrever- fi6le, &c. If God upon the eternal! prefci- ence ofJudas his finali impenitency concei- ved an eternall decree of his Reprobation andDamnation (as Arminiushimfelfgrant- cdi) r implicat contradielioaem velle non fa- cere eandem rem, aut revocare illuddecretum, vó "Pa 1 6e. &c.1Sempiternavoluntas Dei nunquammuta- f Futg. ad Zonim.l.a bilitati íubjaces, quia exfifiendi non habet. It is a thing unbefeeming the Divine majefty, not to decree from all eternity whatfoever hewill do or not do for men or unto men in time ; or when he bath fo de- creed, to revoke or change anyof his de- crees. If therefore the Rernonitrants Pre- deflination and Reprobation be revertible decrees, we will none of them ; for we are fire theywere never ofGods making. Calvines laying is moft true : For the de- cree ofReprobation is no caufe ofinfidelity; though 433
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