of PredefiinatlonandRcprobatiän. ftification,Sanóification, without whichwe ought not fomuchas to dream of our Pre- deftination, at leaft we cannot come to any certain evidence thereof. So likewifeEphef. I. unto the dotrine of Predeftination he joyneth Sanâification and other fpirituall gifts, which are 7E Inet manifeft tokens, of the predefinate. In likemanner the point of Reprobation is fo to be unfolded, that all may underhand, that although by his fpeci- all mercy God do not free the Reprobates from death,yet he forceth not any unto fin, but they are carried headlong unto their de- frucion;, and tbat by their own voluntary motion. So Paul in his epiftle to the Phi- lippians, when he fpeaketh of the Repro- bate, k whore end is deftruclion, he addeth, r; nFiit,3 9 whofe God is their belly, whoreglory is in their fhame, who mindearthly things. So Jude in his epiftle fpeaking of force 1 whowere ordained 'fade de v,' to condemnation, he firaight addeth,that they were wicked men who turn the grace of God into la f ivioufnefle,anddeny the onely Lord God andour Lordyerus Chrifi. It is not therefore the dutyof a Minifler, fo to urge abfolute Predeftination as in the mean time to forget themeans : Becaufe although Gods decree concerning the falvationof this man,fuppofe Peter or Paul, be abfolute, yet the falvatioti of Peter and of Paul in regard of the event and fulfillingof thedecree doth depend up. Ii ot1
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