is no means o fDelair. and with a knowledge of his impenitency and fear of finali obduration, the univerfall conditional! prpmifes cannot perfwadehim that he is one of the Elect, or diffwadehim from thinking he is one ofthe Reprobare. Melanchthon therefore thought the Uni- verfalitie ofthe promife a good motive to incourage any man unto repentance : but he thought it not a good argument to prove that any man is a per fon elected , and /ball mofl certainly repent, though he now think thecontrary. This is the fcruple, this is the devilifh fuggeflion, which the conditional) promifes,though never fo generali, cannot remove out of the fanfie ofan impenitent & defperate finner, fuckan one as Spiera was. Thefeuniverfall proniifes are not direc`l- ly contradiCfory to the tentation. The tentati- on is, I Spiera am a Reprobate, andfliall die in my frnall impenitencie : The univerfall pro- mile is, whofoever believeth and, repenteth fhall be raved. Let this Authour Thew thecon- trad idion His often inculcated propofi tions , God will have all men to be f ved, to repent, God will have none to 6e abflately damned , &c. have fo often been explained & proved im- pertinent to the purpofe wherunto he apply- eth them, that theyneed no further anfwer. The Rorie of f inius his relieving aper- plexed j orman is fame fetched : the applica- H h tion 433
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