is nomeans ofDefpair. he.cannot fafely fwear unto him, that he (hall repent, or that God upon the forefight ofhis ftubbornneflc did not from all eterni- tyabiolutely appoint him unto damnation. And were it poflible fora Remonftrant Minifter to perfwade fuch a dcfperate wretchofhis future repentanc and faith,yet this is not demonflratve to convince him that he is no Reprobate. For he might re- ply, You have taught me that a man may totally andfinally fall away from faith, that he may loft regeneration, fanllifrcation, adoption : f am one of theft in whom God bath eternally forefen this myfinallfalling away: And there- fore though I now felt repentance and faith furring in my heart ( which I do not) yet I know in the end I Ihould relapfe; and there- foreyou neither do nor can affure me that I am no Reprobate. We willingly grant, that we cannot, to thefilencing ofall replies, from the outward eeming acts offaith acrd repentance prove a man tobe a true believer, to be a perfon c- lehed,to beno Reprobate : But we cando as much upon the grounds of our doirine as any Remonftrant can upon his, and forne- what more : becaufe in his doctrine men ju- Rified, fanóified, adoptedmay become Re- probates,and fo be damned in theend. What Pìfator faith is thus farce forth true, That no comfort from affirance of:- h 4 leCtion, 489 Y '
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