hindreth not Pietie and agodly hie. voluntate Diving beforemans freewill hath actually done all the good or evil which it doth in this life. So that the decree ofRe- probation being conceived by them adrno dam fententixpendentis, doneeper liberur ho minis arbitriurn omnia fiatpolita in tfe & in aau quae per illudponi debent, every man may gueffe what boldneífe this is likely tobreed in moft men of deferring their repentance, and continuing in their carnali fecuriry till they think their end is drawing near : which few think of until! it fuddenly furprifeth them. The Remonflrants lately in plain terms affirm, Falfmeft quid dealt, facia fit ab e- terno : Bywhich it is plain what they think ofthedecree ofReprobation. I have flood the longer upon this, that every man may feewhat the Remonftrants principally aim at, when they are fo bitter againft ablolute Predeflination and Reprobation, and fo ea- ger for their conditionatePredeftinationand Reprobation : namely thefe two things : Firft, that reteining the bare name ofeter- nall BleCtion and Reprobation they may clofely and obliquely oppugne the eternity of thole ditinft decrees. Secondly, that they may plainly reduce all the difference ofthofe diftind decrees, as they are termi- nated unto fingular perlons, unto the diffe- rent aós ofmens freewill, and exclude that B e 2 difference 437
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