45 The Sublapfarians doarine from him, make it evident to the tempted, to the filencing ofall replyes, that he is without doubt a true believer and repenting (inner, and confequently no Reprobate. For flill the tempted may fay, You may be deceived inme : for you cannot fee any thingmore in me then bath been feen in many a 7 eprobate. And ifthis be all you can fay to prove me to benone, I amnot fatiafied, I may be a Reprobate a nay I am a 7feprobate, and you are but a miferable comforter, a Phy ìcianofno value. This that I fay, Ptfcator (X) sloth .confeffe ingenuoufly ìnDifput. de Pried. contra Schafman. the,f. 85. where he faith, i, That no comfort can be poüibly inftilled into the fouls of Reprobates afliie ed with this horrible tempta- tion : from whence it follovveth, that the farregrear<f} pact ofmen, even anhundred for one, mutt bear their burden (if they fall into this difaemper and trouble) as well as they can : the Gofpel is not able to afford them any folid com- fort, z. That the Ele& being in this condition may indeed be comforted, but it mull be by their fence of(inne and their defire tobe freed of it by C hrift : which proofs are but one- ly probable to the bell:, and to a man in temptation noproofs at all ; and confequently either no comforts or very (mall ones. In the end of the fame Thetas a.lfo, where he faith, that a man should reafon thus with himfelf, Grace is offered to force with amind ofcommunicating it unto them ; there- fore it may be that I am oneofthofe to whom it is fo ofered : in this place (I fay) he irnplyeth plainly, that the do- etrine of abfolute Reprobation, which teacheth the com- munication of grace to a very few onely, affordeth but a fieri potell , a Peradventure I am Eleaed , ( and that a very poore one too) for a poote foul to comfort himfelf withall. An Anfiver to his 14 ji realn, drawn from the Vnconfortableneffe of this doUrine. Et thefe few undoubted truths be al- wayes remembred I. That Predefli- nation and Reprobation are eternall imma- nent al`,is inmente ac volurtateDivina before the foundations of the world were laid. That
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