462 The Sublapfrians doc7rine which by Gods providence hath afrighted nay f®wli withfear of Reprobation upon the vier of fin»es,r take a-s a tokenofGods eternali mer- cy ,beginning to roueme out of the bedoffecu, city, and intending to do me good. So that whatsoever Calvine, Bucer, Zdnchita, or any man elfe hath faid concerning the danger of this temptation, doth as nearly concern the Remonarants as it doth us. For though this Authour think tohelp himfelf by putting-in the termABSoLur E, when he fpeaketh of Reprobation as we defend it,&by leaving it outal waies whenhe fpeakethof Reprobati- onas he holdeth it,this helpeth not his caufe at all. For we are now difputing about the eternal! decreesand immanent aas whichDi- vines:call Predeílination andReprobation, & not about the temporali effects and external' accomplifhment thereof, unto which forte times the nameofPredcllination andRepro- bation is alfo given. The Divine immanent adofreprobating Cain,Judas,or any other, is as abfolute aReprobation , as irreverfible and immutable, being conceived after the Remonfirants dotrine as after ours. For al- beit theyplace anad of abfolute prefcience before Reprobation, which we place after, yet both they and we acknowledge it fuch anabfolutedecreeas never was nor ever will bealtered. If the temporali accomplifh- menr,which is the aéuall Damnation of the reprobate
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