44 Matth. 23sq, The Sublapfrians docirine this Authour will needs teach us, it is not worth the learning. Many, faith he, are or- dained enevitably to deflrrrciion, and a fern to _ovation. Ifby an ordination to detrucéion andfal- vationhe mean an abfoluteand peremptory will in God todamne force men whether they do well or ill, we hold no fuch abfo- lute ordination. If he mean an eternall ab- folute decree of God to bring force men ( fewer in number) unto grace and glory, and to permit fore others (farremore in number) to abufe the means of grace, to lofe the kingdomeofglory,toprocure their own damnation, we cannot deny it, unleffe we will deny our Saviours expreffe words, Multi vocati, paami elect : Many run in the broadways which leadeth unto death, few in the narrow way which leadeth unto life : which I think thisAuthour will not fay hap- pened without Gods eternall ordinatiòn. For the word inevitably, it is thruft into this propofition very unfitly. Things are Paid to be evitable or inevitable unto men, when by their aCtitns they may or may not be avoided : But as for the eternal( ordinati- ons of God a6ted immanently in himfelf,he that termeth them evitable or inevitable in regard of us, who were not then in being, fpeaketh he knoweth not what. Now for his reafon, Either Iads abfolutely eh®fen
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