468 P The Sublapfarians doarine Authour hath fo highly ext®lled) and to that omnipotent power whereby God is ableto work for us beyond our hope, and to produce in us both the will and the deed of repentingwhenhe pleafeth. There is force- what more likelyhood offuture repentance, when a Pinner is thus referred to Gods abfo- lute will for it, then when he is referred to his own abfolute free-will : and therefore the fear of his Reprobation may in all pro- bability be eafiiyer diminifhed byour do- orine then by, theirs. But I come to his Conference betwixt the Tempted perfon and the Minifler: Where I will take leave to make our own anfwers : for I like not his. TEMPT. Wo is me; lam a cafl-away: I am abfolutely rejec`led fromgraceandglory. MIN i s r. If thou fpeakeft of Gods eter- nail fecret decree of Ele6lion and Reproba- tion , why doff thou affirm that ofthy felf which thineown reafon muff needs tell thee is not known unto thy felfr Ifthou fpeakeft ofan abfolute rejetibn fromgrace and the kingdome of heaven which hath already feifed upon thee in this life, why dolt thou affirm that which thcfiú knowefr and feeff to be, falfe :' God hath and doth continually afford thee gratioùs illuminations and exci- tations : and hewill not leave thee deffitute of them, if thou do not voluntarily harden thine
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