5 i 8 of theAtli andof ofthedoërine acknowledge , and which they who im- pugne this doftrine can never acknowledge as is meet. I will briefly runover forne of the chief of them. Firft, Gods infallible and eternall Prefcience ofcontingent events and of all the actions of free agents, is fuch aproperty as bygrantingor denying where- of we grant or deny a Deity. Wherefore Ifai. 44. 7. God Both challenge the fore- knowledge of future events to himfelf a- lone, and denieth it to all thegods of the heathen. Now this Prefcience is fo linked together with the dotrineof Predeftinati- on, that he who granteth or denieth either mull needs by confequence grant or deny both. Further, an abfolute Dominion and Sovereignty over all the creatures and their actions,efpecially over the wills andalions of men is foproper unto God, that he is not tobeheld for a Godwho cannot bend and incline the wills of men which way he pleafe, and that without any violence offer- ed to their naturali freedome. But if we rejeh the dotrine of abfolute Predeflina- tion, we muff withall ofneceffity abbridge God of his abfolute power over the wills of men. It is therefore no fmall ufe that we make of this dottrine, when we learn from thence that God path an omnipotent power of turning the hearts of men whichway he pleafe. Moreover, theImmutability of the Divine
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