hinarethnot Piety andagodly 1 . are gleans to draw evil upon our felves. Fie bath a crazed 6rai i that will draw praUicoll conclufions or lç icall jquelcs from decrees orantecedents; whereof he knoweth not the particular tenour, or how in fingu- lar they concern hiinfelf. For his objection aga_inft the fecond an- fwer, we [ày, Let hint ttnçlerffand ahfolure Reprobationand abfolnte l ledion as by us it bath been formerlyexplained, and not ac- cording to his erroneous fanfie, which bath been often confuted ; and it no more 6eget- teth (loth or carnal/ liberty then the Remon- f}rants eternall EIeaion and Reprobation fpringing from Gods infallibleand eternall prefcience, nay much leffer. For according toour pofition no man can have fo ffrong a perfwafion that he is eledled and (hall be faved whilfi he continueth in Moth, carnall f curity or finfull a lions,as he may in theirs. If it be once conceived that the eternall de- crees, which diflin.guifb men eleeted and re- probated, Rand foundedupon the forefeen finali goodneffe of men , fuch is the vain confidence which moft men have of their own free-will and ofthe fovereigne domini- on which their will bath over its own ads, that though they be never fo wicked for the prefent, yet they are molt ready to flatter themfelves that they will turn good and holy menbefore their death. And thus they E e fpen1 4.3; N
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