hindreth not Pietie and a godly life. lefneffe which is in the other : There is as great neccílity put upon humane afiions by theeternal' Prefcience of God as is by his eternal' Predeflination. And if any man have looked into School.divinity,he can- not be ignorant that the fane objeéions which are made a;ainfl Predeflination, as overthrowing the Libertyof manswill,and putting a necefsity and inevitability upon his aétions, they are likewife made againfi the Divine Prefcience, as doing the fame : and the felf-fame anfwers and diflinlions which free the one from this calumny, free the other. Molina (no enemy to the Remonflrants doctrine) plainly affirmeth, z In concilianda Cont. gm. tam libertate arbitrii nollri circa acluspeccato- ZZ,pag. `99 rum quám evitabilitate eorum cum Divina providentia, non alias labor eft quìm in iifdem conciliandps cumpratientia quá Deus prievidet cos of futuros nifi impediat. Malderus (no friend to the Contra-remonflrants) a grant- '.Antif p. eth abfolute Predeflination both unto the 14,15,17, aäions of grace, as Believing, Perfevering, and the like, and to the end thereof, which is eternal' Life. And he detefleth their opi- nion who hold that the freeatsofmen can- not be predefined eternallybyGod;vAbfat ut b Tag -1. in illam concedamusfententiam que docet atlus nojlros liberos non poge ullo modo á Deopr de- f And 443
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