178 The order of thecats /es ofGodconcerningeuerymanseternal' both faluationand damnation, is from all eternitie,fetdowne,and immutable.The reafims. I. Teflimoniesof fcrip- ture. Roman. i [.2g.Ìhegiftesandcal lingofGodtheyare, áp:zap Any, filch as arezrithost repo tar,ce. Matth.24..24,Therel'halariféfflf Chriffes, andfilfe Prophetes :a :?dfh4sll doegreat firms andmiracles,fo th lr (ifit were poflible) they f oarlddeceisse essera the elect. Roman. 8. 2,3.w/2o/hall/ay Mary thing to the chargeof Gods c o fen ?it is God that its,br feth ,who(hall cond>ar;î .s ? 2. Tim, befor dxtiono`Cod f , ndethfasre,amdbath this f .,ale, the Lord k oro- ethwhoare his . II. Elec$ion and reprobation they are inGod , not in men : now there can be nothing inGod which is not immutable. Mal. 3. 6. 7 feho- (sah amnot cbakged. Efay. 46. io. lily coanfllfh,ellfland,and will doe rrhat- f ever .mill; i lL i f this popifh concluíion lhouldbe granted;thenwould it follow ofneceti ty,thatthetoreknowfedge ofGod tnufl be madevoid,hispo-, wwet v; eaket cd,andhis will changed,each ofwhich is irnpiot s orce to dreame or For huewhich changethhis counfell,or his will, doeth therefore change it either becaufe he at the length feeth thathe might baue taken better aduife, or els in that he Teeth that hecould not bringhis former purpofe about as bee would. Either ofthefe are farmfrom+our LordGod. IV. If wee refolue that thecounfelofGod isany walesmutable , it willby thiscome to paffe that e- eerie man muff be vncertaine whetherhebe predeflinateto lifeor not: whet- by that notable flay andground000ur fill aliurance tobe,faued,isvtterlyflea- kenandouerturned. Wherefore let this truth be maintainedofvs, narnely,that both theelection and reprobationofGod (land immutable,fo that neither the elecican becomereprobates,nor the reprobates elect; and confequently nei- ther thefebe fàued,nor they condemned. Againfl thisdoclrine,the popifh fort except, lfyoufpeake in' a compound ienfe or meaning( corepogto j it is very true that thepredeflinate can not be faued , nor fuch as are foreknowne perifh : but ifin afenfe diuided (isz fenfit diuif) irisnot fo. This ditlintlion is plaine by this example. White colour in a compound meaning cannot be black,becaufeblackneffe is repug- nantand .contrarietowhitenef1e. But in adecided fenfe white colour nowe may afterwardsbemade blacke. In like fort, one predeflinated. to faluation may,by reafonofthe free will hebath, finne,and fobe damned. Anf Thefe are fife fhiftes,and meere fophifines,becaufe filch as are predeflinated to the end, namely faluation, areneceffariliepredefiinate to the meansoffaluation, the which they cannot but vfe,and by them cometo the end it felfe. The III. erreur. 1lllrrrenarepredefiinate, thsrtis, dij.fd and ordaynedof god,fi a.rthey might. attainseternal' life. Sebat{. çattaneus in his Enchiridion, chap. of Predea. "'' 7he
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