Davenant - Houston-Packer Collection BT810 .D38 1641

51z of the abufe and of the doclrine and the leffer part fhould efcape, without mentioning what particular perlons he will by his fpeciall favour preferve from death or Puffer to be flain, I demand now, if any man by occafion of the Divine will thus farre revealed would needs before the combat reckon himfelf in particu. lar to be one of the number of thofe who mull certainly perifh , and here- upon out of a defperate humour throw down his weapons , run upon the enemies fwords, and voluntarily offer himfelf tobe (lain ; I demand, I fay, whether this wretch fhould rather be thought to be driven into De xuufi a- this defpair by the Divine revelation or by bominu lute dejpe- his own madnef e. Without doubt he may random blame himfelf for taking occafion ( where quern Dei patientia no juft one was given) from the forefaid finit vive- revelation. The very fame we may think re; de jui- of thofe who from the dotrine of Prede- ipfius mi- nimerrmni- flinarion and Reprobation let forth in ge- urn. Tan- nerall do take occafion to thru(f themfel ves quarn ca- i put igita nto the number of thofe that are repro no- bated and (hall certainly perifh, and there- xia tenta- upon to negle f their Jpirituall armour to ti,ais re- pellatur ab offer their throat to the devil, and wilfully animo to plunge themfelves into the pitofhell. a .ß Cisriti Tani bæc mortì- man ought not toderpair, faith S. Auguftine in fera con- a certainplace,o f the f l ,ration ofanyone whom "0" sum the patienceof God loth ft ffir to live; leaft of cc repro. batis. all ofhis own. This dea d6 conclrJiicn there- fore

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