isno mewsofDefpair. togain a comfortable perfwafion ofa mans EleCtion, and confequently to drive away the fear or fufpitíon of being a Reprobate. If the Remonllrants have a new way ofdo- ing this, I dare confidently affirm it cannot be a good way. For his obje&ions againft us , of Gods two, oppofate wills , the one ficret, the other revealed; of force mens impofsiblefalvation and inevitable damnation: theyare his own erroneous collections. We have already Ihewed that thereare no fuchoppofite wills in God : and that for poffibilitie ofatteining falvation and avoiding damnation , every man bath as much according to our do- trine as theirs. But becaufe this Authour never leaveth inculcating abfoluteReproba- tion to be a doctrine that taketh away all grounds of comfort, I mull tell him again and again, that if he admit eternall decrees in God, of giving repentance and perfeve- rance untoPeter, and of not-giving it unto Judas , of giving eternall life unto Peter, and of not-giving it unto Judas, let him fup- pofe or imagine what act of Divine prefci- ence he pleafeth to be precedent unto the forenamed decrees, Judas was as abfolutely under the decree of Reprobation, and fo as abfolute a Reprobate,in his doctrine as ours. For the eternall will of God is altogether abfolute, which decreeth a future event, H h 3 conf- 487
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