45 g The Sudlapfrians dot beit they fet three sternall decrees in order ofconfideration before they come toEleai- on and Reprobation, yet they bring God in the fourth upon an eternal! prefcience eter- nally decreeing to fave thefe fingular and certain perfons,and todamne thefe fingular and certain perfons, and no other. If this laf} decree be eternall and irreverfìble,ifit be founded upon the eternall forefight of their final! impenitency, God bath as abfolutely reje1edmany men from fpeciall or effeetu- all grace and glory in their doctrine as in purs. Thedevil mayfuggef,but hecannot more easlypert vade a man that maketh it bis creed, That exflatulapfo God pathout of his good pleafureandmere mercy eleeted force unto theatteiriment of falvation, and out of his abfolute will left others to' the lofing thereof, then he may perfwade thole who make all men eternally reprobated whom God eternally forefaw would out of their own free-will live and die impenitent. A man mull be perfwaded that his own free- will was a more likely means to put him within thedecree of eternall Eleciiop then the free mercy of God, or elfe our doctrine 4fr"ordeth more hope to any man of being predeftinated then theirs. Now there is no well-inflruc`ed andhumble Ghritlian, who lrnoweth the corruption of his own free- will void
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