is no means ofDefpair. do&rive or ours be more or leffe comforta- ble; it is not enough to Phew thataccidental- ly,through the falle apprehenfion or difor- dered affe6tions of men, difconfolation or defperation may arife from ours, unleffe he can clear the Remonffrants dottrine from the fame inconveniences; which we know he cannot, andwhich we canand will prove to be more liable thereunto then ours. Whereas he faith our dolirine leadethmen into temptation, becaufe. the devil may eafily perfivade aman that believeth abjolute Reproba tion, that he is one of tho f abfolute reprobates, therebeing an hundredabfolute reprobates for one abfolute elea, andthere being more realn for any man to think that he is one of the moll then ofthe feiveft: We anfwer , That abfoltoteReprobation is Gods abfolute decree of not- givingunto many men that effeduall grace without which he infallibly knoweth they will never attein unto glory. And by abfolute reprobates nothing elfe can truly be underffood, but perfons thus abfblutely di- ftinguifbed from the elea in the immanent at of Gods eternall and immutable will. If this Authour have any other meaning, when he fo often inculcarethabfluteRepro- bationand abfolute reprobates, we leave him to fight with his own fanfies. Now the Re- monfirants in this fenfe hold abfolute Re- probation and abfolute reprobates. For al; F f 4 beit 457 B .
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=