is no means of Delimit.: round he troubleth the fanfie ofa man with a thong conceit that he is one ofthofe fin- gular perfons not-eleted. That this is a rafh groundleffe conceit, both we and the Re- monfirants may convince the partie tempt- ed : but to affure him that he is within the number of the Eleá, it is more then we are able todo. I with this Authour had quoted the place in Cælius or Calvine, thatfo we might have judgedhow trulyhe reporteth them.Sleidan reporteth the fame Rory, and telleth us, De vide co. mifricordia Dei cwpit deferare ; That when sent. lib. his comforters urged fuch teflimonies as "pa.zs5. expreffe Gods great mercy, he denied not the truth of them, but faid they belonged not unto him ; Et qubd agnitam verita.em abjurafft, deflinaturr fe cruciatibus ¿ternis, illófquejam animo fife perfenti f ere atquevide- re : neque Deum amarepole veraimhorribi- liter odiffe dicebat. As for the phrafe or opi- nion of abfolute Reprobation, which this Au- thour here fo often harpeth upon, it is not once mentioned by Sleidan. And it is more probable, that Spiera had his conceit ofthe doarineof Predeflination andReprobation from the Romane church wherein he * scotu§ was bred,or from theLutheranes by whom and his he had been converted, then from the Cal- fouowír's. vinifls, with whom it appearethnot(inmy Authour) that he had any acquaintance. If 479
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