ofPredeftination andReprobation. 51 i of Predeftination and Reprobation in the fecret counfel of his own will. For firft even reafon it felf forbiddeth us in matters whereof we arealtogether ignorant to de- termineany thing on either fide:Now what God didbefore the creation ofthe world is apoint fo deep and unfearchable , that togo about by conje thre to dive into it is even as ifman a, poore earthworm ibould attempt to fcaleheavenwith a ladder. Here we may well take up that Exod. i9. 12. Take heed to your fives that yego not up into the mount or touch the border of it : whojoever toucheth the mount, fhall befurelyput todeath. Hilary faith very well, z Weare to pry nofurther into the Z De Trine Divine reafon then it bath pleated to reveal it xáto cceie. f ifto our underftanding.Now thisit givethus ßis in tan: tounderftand, that fome were eleted, forne t inter ligenda eJ reprobated :but who are ele6ed who repro- in quantum bated, it fuffereth us not toknow. But fur- jepermit- ther,thoughany man were fo rafh and heady tit iztteuí+ as that he couldnot moderate himfelf but 81* muff needspeep beyond thewritten word in- to thefe eternall andhidden aaions ofGod, yet from thefe his moiluncertain conjeaures to prefcribe himfelf a rule what to do or not do,were madneffe void ofall reafon.For let us put cafe,that abattei were tobe waged between two arrnies,andGod by forcePro - phet had revealed that the farregreater part of the fouldiers fhould perifh in the fight, and
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