473 The Suhlapfarians d c7rine For he that will go about to affure an un- faithfull man, that he is not in thenumber of men eternally reprobated, mutt be able to affure him that he is in the number of men eternally eleCted. For the Remon- itrants themfelves, who acknowledgeeter- nal! Ele Lion and Reprobation as well as we, confeffe there is no middle fort of men which areneither eternallyelected nor eter- nally reprobated ; and therefore if theycan affurea man he is not reprobated, they can affure him he is eleted. For the example ofFrancis Spiera, it ma- keth no more against us then against any who hold diflind oppofite decrees ofEle- dtion and Reprobation eslablifhed in mente ac voluntate Tivina beforethe foundations of the world were laid. When the Devil fuggeftethunto a man, that by Gods decree beis in the number of perlons reprobated, be troubleth him not with Jefuiticall or Ar- minian difputations, whether aconditionate prefcience or an abfolute prefcience must ficundàrn nof?rum modum ìntelliçendi be pre- fuppofed in the fame eternitie unto the eter- nail decrees of Election and Reprobation : but he taketh advantage upon that wherein weall agree, that God is not now tomake his decrees who thall be eleCted and who not but that this was a thing immutably ordered from all eternitie. Upon this true ground
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