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gg. Supralapfaritos` charge not God g ibid. C. rs. And yet more expreffely,e.Lihraturpars ho» rninum,partepereunte : Etßhoc voluntatum meritis voluerumuS adfcribere, ut malos rnegle- Xill7egratia,bonoselegife vïdeatur,reflet nobis rb, . C. r Latesdlfiretionis iflius ratio,lednon la- tit ipfa di f retro. No,n inteil,gimus judicantem, fìd videmus operantena : Ruud calumniamur jrt itiR accultce, qui grani is debemus rrifericor- dice man fef á: &c. E It is not found but blind reafon, which forbiddeth God to elegy and paffe-by ac- cording to the good pleafure of his own twill, andbindetl; him toproceed according to his et-email forefaght of the good or bad adions ofmans will. As for thofe tragi- call exaggerations of Refolving to create that he might torment,, &c. they are all befide the purpoCe, and muff not drive us to dense that Apoffolicall decifion , Mi f retur cuj!rs vrilt;..&N gum vult induras. And when they can chew us that Faith, Perfeverance, or any gt?alitie or ad ofCaving grace, was forefeen in Peter and Paul, and thereupon their fol- lowing Election grounded , we will grant that antecedent infidelitie in Cain and Judas was the caule of their negative Reprobation of well as of their pofitive or punitive. As for the creating of any perfons to the end or intent that they might be eternally tor- mented, we deny that the oppofite decrees of abfolute Ele;pion and Preteuition, whe- ther

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