444 The Sublapfariaaas edoc7rirre And to Phut up all in a word; As Tibe- rius would have been as careleífe in reli_ Vide')mot. gion, if he had thought that all things come ragZ3 I topaffe in time according to an eternallim- mutable prefcience of God, as he was in thinking that all things come to paffe ac- cording to aneternall immutable deflinati- riide .Anr on of God; fo it is as much to be feared, de c°°"'Lib that many Remonflrants ground their idle- a bit. cum Fred. cap. neffe and profaneneffe upon this fanfie,That j what Godhath eternally forefeen will come to paffe in time, muff of neceffitie fo come topaffe, as that any of our opinion fhould ground it upon the like fanfie, That what- foever God hath eternally predeffinated to come to pare in time, muff of neceffity fo come to paffe. And fnce whether we found Predeflination upon prefcience or other- wife, í}i11 the knowledge and comfortable fenfe thereof can nootherwife be had then in and by the temporali effeas, no reafon canbegiven whyabfolute Predeflination(as it is taught by our Church) fhould breed more carelefneffe or prefumption then the Remonfirants Predeftination. Treatifi. Come now to my laíí reafon againfl it, drawn from the 1 Uncomfortableneire of it. It is a doetrive (A) full of de.. fperation, both to them which Rand and to thofe that are fallen , to men out of temptation and to men in tempta- tion. It V. Ft ir an cum' to txtte COat- roÄr.
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