o f Predeftinatiors andReprobation. the conclufion which they infer from it, viz. That although they do believe the Gofpel, and live never fo holily, yet for all that they ileall be damned, by reaion of the infallible decreeof the Divine will. I anfwer, There was never in theDivine will any fuch decree as thefe men imagine, of damning any man though he fhould believe and live righte- oufly. Yea, Godbath eiiablifhed and pub- lifhedunto all men a quite conrrary decree, Thatbn,hofoever believeth in t isSonne (hallnot b Tohn 3. pen /h but have everleing life, And, That 16. there is no condemnation to them which are in `1"" 8.1' Chrift yef t, who walk not after the fleJb but after the fpirit. The do`irine therefore of Gods ferret decree of Predeftination and Reprobation can afford no comfort to any man before he knoweth that he is in Chrift and is become a new creature : neither can it drive any man to defpair who believeth the Gofpel and is carefull to lead a godly life ; becaufe fuch a care is a confequent fruit of Eledion.Whence S. Augufline,d Fromyour d De bono godly andupright courfe of lifeye may conclude Perrever that ye do belong to Gods gratiows Elr1`t on.' `, n' `p- fu cr,ifis The femme of what we have laid is this ; ve(iro too That the doérine ofeternall Predeflinatiori re po c,. dit,e zor and Reprobation is true, and quo.ad the¡in, in ad Pæge_ the generall,clearly delivered in the Scrip- tures : yet as it bath refpeeÇt unto particular rte gratáæ perfons elea ci or reprobatyd, it is a moft pertinere. K k unfearch- 5r5
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