490 The Sublapfaridns dotirine le&ion, or from aífurance ofnot-being un- der the decree of Reprobation, can pofiibly be inflilled into the f ul of any man ele :ed or not-elected, fo long as he continueth faithletfe and impenitent. And for this Authour, ifhe can perfwade but one ofhis hundred reprobates,whileft he lieth in impenitencie,that he is no reprobate, he hath but brought him into a fools para- dife,and comforted him with a lie, or at leaft with that whereof the truth is to him who avoucheth it altogether unknown and uncertain : Which boldneffe becometh not the true Minifters ofthe Gofpel of Ghriff. To fbut up all ;It is a groffe errour in this Authour, to fuppofe that the Gofpel teach- eth a Miniffer how to comfort a defperate impenitent finner, byaffuring him that he is ofthe number of the Elect, or that he is not Within the number ofthe Reprobate, or that Gods eternall decrees of Elegy ion and Re- proba'tion are yet unmade or unfettled. And it is a {frame fanfiewhich thisAuthour hath conceived, that the Renionftrants dotrine cangive fuch a diftempered and impenitent finner proofs more then probable that he is no reprobate. Nay he further irnplieth,that his dotrine can give fuch a perfon more comfort then thisFi E R I n oir EST Peradven- ture lameletled. Belike it can affure him ,With- Out all Peradventure, thouartan electedper%n. Thos x
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