I I 1.1 Treatije ot Prede(lmation. 6ll hlmfdfe in the alone will o(God,Who bath r<- A. tboudar4Jd>fPmcrmh Cj,J! AndGugme. L" 1 ExpoGo 1 1 :(om 9· 19• Jifte·d hu will? B~t, 0 m. .zn, whoarrtbouwhich ntJmlln dtfiretojtarc_h, wh~rl'jbr~ onl!jhuu!d be c.. 10 ·' 11 •'=• 37 1 i{~·m. 11 . H p!e.,deft agtJin~ Godf AgaineP thedcrptnef{eof !t[fed whm"~other 11 rcuclrd,luca.:t(t' hunu{tf/~ { r/u riches, b~th '.[the JvljedrJmea.,d kf:ow!edge of m:nrs 4rcvnje~rchable, 'md huwauspafl (ir~dmg 1 (;ad:ho:Pvnfoarchab!e .:lre hi! iud,gunmts, a11d our.In rhrsfeconda.{tofreprob.J.nOtHhcrc be his tr~ain p41 findmg ot~t! To conclod~,tfit be twodegrces,a iuUde(ertlonor for{akmg, :and demanded, why God crcared rhis world and damnltion for fin ne. SoF141gentiHs: In fruh no more,we touf:l haue reccurfc to the mcere ((Jttn he)God!ugins h11111dgemmt 67 (orf~t~mg, ~~~~:d will ofGodoandwhy muflwe not doe fo, ifit 4nd tndJJt i111torm~nting. Diuinc de(t>rtlon is be demaundedwhy God electech tlus man, cwo-fold.The fir(li,,tnac "hereby God cloth and (orfakcth thar man or another? Amh~r forfake man.onelym regard of Jusarfillai1CC 'De '!IOC4tione gmeium: A p4rt of m~tn~i~td ir and ftrengrhcning, by omming the :ontJr. rtdetm~d, 11 part ptri 1 q,erh. BHt 'P'hoca" tell , mat10n ot rhccrcarure, and nor conferring wb7 qoddoth ""pili< th<m, andpi11inh th•(d thefccond grace, whereby the fir(! ought be the ·rea(on of the Ji/linflion it vn~noWHt. lmt madeetfctlua/J to refilt temptations, and w the diftsnElion or [ep4ration it felft it not vnperfeuere in goodnelft:. T hu is the dc(trtion De(ertio ~owne. B o(rriaJJJ and may happen to them, who hauc c~~!orac1o. The fecond act is the ordaining of them notthemfclucs as yer (orfakcn God. For 1t ""· topunlfhment or due dcllruC'tlon.This ordiwas in the fidl man AtiHm, who rcceiued o( nation in refpect ofchcdruerfecon{iderarion G odpower to doe that which hewould, but rhcreof,ma9be di(hngutfhed: and (o it is einor "'11 eo do that "hich hccoulj,SoAuguf/. 0 rher timple or compa;ariue. The limplc: or. HcreceiH~d({aithhc)p9wrrifhe rr-iU~d: but hu & ~r~~:~~·. drn,uion IS that t whereby thts man,fuppo(e hadnotws/1an(wtr~tbleto hi1po"'-trforif IJah.u~ Peter or lohtt,is ordaitled ro puoi01rnCnr. And b.td,hefoo/Jbmtep.·r(twrcd.Agaio,HewiU Rblc thrs ordinarion isofthe moll1ull wrl ofGod, aljotopi!r(~mre; if he would : <Jrtdm th,gt be would yet not without re(peel oforigmall and acton11t 11 pr11;;cededoffrtt.rn!l,whschthffl wa& fo(ru, all tinnes, For as men are atlually damned that h~w..u 11hleto wsl/ wc/111nd 1ll. The caufcof for iinne: ro God ha.rh decreed to damne this defection Wa'1,that r1damand Ius potlerirhem for the fame li11ne. Ycc nocwithflantic mighr know rh~t they could fall by rhem.- dlng tinne 1snot the caufe ofthe de'crceo( re~ felucsJbut thar they could noc tland , 1n01 .. h probation, but in regard of orderitgocth beletfe rife agamc;& therefore that they Cho.uJd forein God<;: fore·kao~~ ledge, not rharfor· whollydepend on Gods mercy. H erealfoit mer,bur rh1slarrer acl:.Theordination which C mufl be r<:cnembred, rha.t berwccne rh1s defiands 111 corupanfon 11 that, whereby one (errwnand I'!dams finne, fherecamcalfo A ma.nand nor another, and this man rarher d4mt WJIJ,whcrchy h<' beemg left ro hisowue rhen rbac, beeingm the like conJitl001ii orllrcngth, drJby and by percc1uc the very dau1ed eo punillHilt:ut. This ferueth to fhcw famc,h1s confciencc teJlins: and yer for all rhe hb'ertle ofG~dow1!1, in the di(peu(ation that he w1l1ed his owne fall by the free moti of fupcrnamroll benefits. For in that God onofhis will. chufrththisman, andnotthat, itdeclarerh The fecond dcfertion is a priuationand rhel1berty and very grc:u perfeCtion of feeling ofrhegifr:,, wherewith thl' minde isa. God: and therefore vnder the ,ame of an darned, and a dalaJCrmg into the power of houlholder, hee challengeth thefamevnto Sathan, char he may feduce men, and more himfelfe, when hecfaith: M•J Inotdm•ith and moreleadc them inroGnne. Thts is a de 0 r . Mat.~o.xs. mineormewhtt I J,(lfAnd verrly though God ferrionof pumfhment, and therefore lt foi- p~n~~10 ddlroyand condemnc all thofc wbol1le hec loweth Gone. And ofthis dcfcrtion)andnor doth forfake,yet lhould he not be iniufl. For ofrhe former, IS rhe rule eo be vnderllo~1d, we our [cluesin thedally k1lliog and fbugh. A D~o de(trti DeHm1more' deftrunt, thofl! termgofbealhw1llnor bee counted vniull, D whicharefor(akcnof God, doethen.fduco neither indeed arewe: and yet in compar(fon 6r(i fotfake God. ofGod we are not (o n'iuchv.·oorth,as a Aie is And this ts our dotlrinc ofPredeflin:lti. in refpcCl ofvs. Ifit bebwfullforthce tore.. on,whichfauourcrh ncnher of the errors of ceme 10, or to thrufl out any out of thine rh: MJntchees 1 Stoicks, Pebg1ans, nor of Ehou(e, becaufcthouwllt; it were a poi~rof pirurifilte,bm is (as I 2m perfwadcd) agrc\.'adefperate boldnelfc ro take the fame r~ght ble to thecruth,andorrhodoxall: but yet 1t i• from God inhis houfe. . oppo5ned by fundry cr1m1n2t1ons, or fallC Thecau(e ofthiscompamiueordinacion accuf•tions, which I will Oriue 1.i1h all my isthefole will of God, yea euenwithour relhengrh tooucrthruw,am:lrhat bncRy. fpetlofany finneat all, So Augufli,u:God dt· Th~firfl Crimimtticmis. f,Hilrttbnoman butb(hu free mtrci~, 11nd CQfl.. That weteach,thatccrtaiOemen.and thofe dem>~tthnomi~nbutmofl righteoufly. Now why butfcw,arceJt:Cted. • hedeliuertththiJm"nratherthenthat. let him An(vvcr. (earch, whocan diuei11to thegreat depth of hiJ Certaine .men we fay. Forall rhe eletl ;~re r.ib.r.:~d iudgements, Againe,Whytutthusto thum4n, knownevnto God, and rhc 1 r number can \Sunj>lq ~. and otherw'f~ to this! 0 ma.,, '11'hoart thouthttt neitherbe lncrca(cdnorJJmlnlfheJ. Fe:\~. w~ doe
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