62 The illfolute abfolute will by effeauall grace Mercifully ordaining certain perfons unto the infallible atteinment of glory. In this decree, Faith, Perfeverance, and all faxing graces are not in order ofnature the forefeen conditions but the afterfeen effects of Predeflination. So likewife our Church conceiveth Re- g' Vide Pc- probation to be b .negatives anuspr edefi- ' nationts, a free ad oftheDivine will deny- ing. the fpeciall benefit or favour of Pre- deftination ( which is the preparation of grace, infallibly bringing men unto glory) to fome certain perfons. As for pofitive Reprobation (which is eternall damnation) this our Church foundeth .upon the guilt anddemerit of mans finne. We fay there- fore with a learned writer of the Rornifh Church (to whom you think this opinion e RukDe to be fo odious) c omnibus hominibas con- Trde(t.e fderatis fah cf pofsi6ili grids ratione gu;tn; Repr. drf, 2. §.z,gag, predeftinarentu1 aut reprobarentur, nullafuit 19 ratio difcririnis que potuerït Div nun vo- luntatem inclinare ut priedeftinationem fax negaret potiús quhm Paulo. And again , d Ibid.pryg. d Nulla rientia vifionis ultima foYmalitérq ?,2, con/lituit reprobationem fedpotiús totam re- probatioriem fitcpponit exparteobjecli. So that all they, whether Lutheranes or R.emon- firants, who make Predeftination nothing but the will of God to fave believers , and Reprobation or Preterition nothing elfe but the
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