482 The Sublapfarians doUrine verfall rantmefor the finnes ofallmen ; The covenant,Sr CREDIDERIS,SALVL1S ERIS, univerfall : Therefore God did not forefee thy finall impenitency, and thereupon decree to exclude thee from eternall life. Noman can be foperplexedby the devil fuggeíling unto him his eternal! Reprobation, but he will eatly fee that fuck arguments cangive him no aífuraiceofhis eternall Eleéion : Nay, they will rather increafe his fear ofRepro- bation : becaufe at the very prefent he find- eth inhimfelfan hard and impenitent heart, anddefpaireth of the mollification thereof; which will induce him to imagine that God eternally forefaw him a finali impenitent man, and upon that eternally reprobated him according to the Remonflrants do- trine. Melanchthon fpake wifely and truly, that the promifi ofgrace, pardon, and f lvation I (upon repentance and faith) is our ('urea re- fugeire tentation. For as for eternall Ele i- onand Salvation, God bath not abfolutely promifed them unto any fingular perfon : and thereforeno man can comfort himfelE from a decree altogether unknown unto himfelf ; but his comfort in tentationmutt be drawn from the embracingof the condi- tions of life made known unto him in the Gofpel. But whileft a man flandeth poiref fed with a fanfie óf his own Reprobation and
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