t8o theorderof thec4ttfcs beforethefourdsstionsoftheworlduvere laid:and that notbecaufe hedid forefee that they would be holv,but that theymight bee holy and =blameable before Godwit lotic. And 2 , verf. i o. bee faith,they werecreated togoodworkes in Chrg ,that they might wake therein. In which places, good workes they are made effe&les ofpredeflination ; but the effe& forefeene cannot bee thecaufc ofhis caufe: for thatcuery caufe, in the order both ofnatureand knowledge,dothgoebeforehis effe I. II. Tit. ;.s.Not ofrvorkeswhich tree have done, but according tohis merciedidGodelea andfauevs. III. God ine- le ±ing vs , did not regard any thingout ofhimfelfe, but inhimfelfedidhee e.. lea vs. Elite. r . q. and g.Therfore did he not regarde fùture works. IV. Some of the_popifh fchoolmen confeffe, Predeflination doth put nothing in the particpredeflinated, inrefpeei ofhim, for which God did predeflinate him. Thom r. primæ. quæa. a3. art. a. V. Election is onlie onGods mercie.Rom. 9. 16. VI. God fawe no grace inman, but that whichhe himfelfmuft below vponhim : whence it isapparant, that in ele6uion thebeginning therofprocee- Beth froth grace: VII. Seeingthere is nothing either aboue God, or greater then God,it muff needs be impious toaffigne antecaufe ofhis will,either out of or abouehis maief ie : and therefore that his foreknowledge of faithand vvorkeslhould be accounted the impulfiue caufe ofhis decree, concerning, mans,faluation,we doe rightlie denie. . The Y. rrrour. RI Rapt/fine rightly adi iniffred,not only :heguiltines, but alit thecorrarp tionoforiginallfini isfowajhedarvay,arthat it is not afterwardproperlyacc®tert ted afnne. The Confutation. Wecontrarilie doe thus diflinguifhoffinne. Sinne in regarde oftheguilti- nefl'e ofGodswrath , and alfoin regardeof thepunifhment together, byone act is takenaway in Baptifine:but inregard ofthat error andcorruption ofna ture, it is not atthe firft quite taken away,but fuccefíìuely, and by little and' little it is extinguiíhed ; euenasour renouation wrought by the holyGhoft is, by littleand littlebegunand increafedin vs. Reafons. I. Paule would not fb greatlie bewaile hisoriginali fnne,ifafter Baptifine it ceafed any more to bee finne. lfee,faith he,another law inmymembers,rebellingagainfl the lawofmy anind,and leading mecaptiaae vnto the law offinne which is inmy members. U rai ferable man!who[halldeliver-mefrom thisbody ofdeath? Original! finne, is called afinne out ofmeafure fin fsall. Rom.7. y 3 . and Fleb. t z. i. a finnethat hangethfaffon,or,eafiy compafth vsabout. III. Concupifcence is the roote ofaeluall finne; and therfore euen after l3aptifne,it muff properlybeea fin. 1V. Vnleffe thatconcupifcence werea finne,wherewould or Couldbee that vehe- ment andNote combate betwixt the fleth and the fpirit? The.
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