is no means of De[air. 4t). habet; non pote f habere volitionem quam stun habet. Unleffe therefore it be demonflra- ted, that God neither out of his abfolute will nor out ofhis eternal' will guided by his abfolute and eternall prefcience hath di- flinguithed men in elec`los ., reprobatos, the perplexed foul cannot be rid from the fore- named tentation. And a Remonflr.ant muff relinquifi bis opinion of the eternall Ele on and Reprobation of fingular perfons up- on the Divine prefcience, or he can never be able to fatisfie a tempted perfon who acknowledgeth him felf to be faithleffeand impenitent, and fuppofeth that God , eter- nally forefeeing he would fo remain un- to his lives end , bath eternally rejed- ed or reprobated him. For example ; Remonflrant cometh to comfort a man who thinketh himfelf to be one of thofe whofe Reprobation God bathdecreed from everlafling upon the everlatlíng forefight of his finali impenitencie : He telleth him, God would have all to be Paved; Chrifl died for all, &c. What can the Remonfirant Mi- nifler conclude hereupon,: Thereforeno man Was reprobatedfromeverlafin?upon the fore- fight ofhis impenitencie: Therefore not you. This were to croffe his own principles. As for an orthodoxMinifter, he will never go about to prove unto the tempted perfon that there is no fuch thing in the world as H 2 fouie
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