19 8 Theorder ofthecartfes mitteth thisfin,becaui`e the route thereof,namely,fet malice,l urketh inwardly in theheart,and is notfoeafily difcerned. Out ofall this which bath been fpoken,we in ay thus define this finne. The finne againfl the holyGhoft is avoluntarie, and obfcinatedeniall of, andblaf phemieagainfi the SonneofGod, or that truethwhichwas before acknow- ledged concerning him and fo confequently an vniuerfali defe&ion from God and his trueChmh. Wehauc an exampleof this finnepartly in the di- uell,.sho,albeithe knewwelleraough that lefus was that Chriti,yet hce neuer ceafedboth wittinglyand NN illinglywithal' his power, toofpugne,the facred Nlaieflieof CI 0D together with thekingdotne of Iefus Chrifl,and, asfarre foorth as he could,vtterly to fupplant the fame, partlyin the Phar.fes, Muth. chap. r 2.3 2.loh.1.2. After Apollafic followeth pollution, which is thevery fulnef%of all ini- guitie, altogether contrarie to fanaification. Gen. i 5.16. erlin >d in thefourth generation theyrnalicamehit heragaine,for the wickgdneleoftheAmoritesis not yetfull. The third degree is damnation, whereby the reprobates aredeliuered vp to eternal). punii ;meat. Theexecution ofdamnation beginneth in death,a_ndis finifhed in the la.fc iudgeinene. Luk. i 6.22. rl it was fo that the heggerdyed, andwas carried by the fngeitinto Abrahamt befotrme;the richman alp sl edand was buried. 23. Andbeing in hell torments,he liftvp bis eyes andfare Abraham farceof,,and La4,arus, in his bafome. The executionofthedecree of reprobation in Infidels, which arc not cal- led,is this. Firfl,theyhaue by nature ignorance and vanitie ofminde. After that followeth hardneffcofheart, whereby they become voydeof all sorrow for their finnes. Then commetha reprobate fenfe, which is,whcn the natural! light ofreafon andofthe iudgcment ofgood and euill,is extinguifhed. After- ward, when the heart ceafeth to forrowe, then arifeth a committingof finne with greedineffe. Then commeth pollution , which is the fulneffe of finne, Lafily,a iuft reward is given to all thefe,towir,fcarcfull condemnation.Eph.4. z8.Hauing their cogitations dar&ened,and beingflrangers from the feofGod through the ignorance that is in them, becaufe ofthe bardneP.oftheir hearts. Boni. r .28. For as they regardednot to know God, cumfogod delivered theca tip toareprobate minde,t odoe thofe things wrhtckarenot con.teenient. CHAP. 4
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