C H A P.2. AN Expofitiote etporithe fecond V E x.t 3e before s the worlds were, God chofe before the Y foundation of the world, Tet),ar & a r' dpKñ4, though termes properly belonging to time,yet are fometimes tranflìimed to denote what is pertinent to eternitie, that which was z from the beginning of the word of life, fends vs beyond the begin - ning,to meditate eternitie of Chrifls exiffence and genera- tion. Idly doth that felfe conceited dunce criticke,vrge the p Toq,when he would proouc reprobation to be ordered in time ?after the fall : Forfoeth Jude faith,,reiAat,a ofoldfore- ordained to this indgement. l And why not eleaion fancied to be in time, becaufe a'a ápxás? 2 b cAntiquus dierum, denotes it not Gods eternitie ? And why not ,raj xi of old, that is from eternitie, which is elder then time. ; Is clec`Ii- on before time ? Then reprobation. Who fochoofeth, re- fufeth alto; and when his choife is, then is his refufall. See fupra. Saint `Paul from a like circurnl ance, and farre inferiour concludes, that election is not es operib us, but exvocante. For c ere the children were borne, before they had done good or euill, it was fail, I bane lowed Jacob. What when it pafleth on vs, before the worlds ? In eternitie ? May wee not much more inferre ? Therefore not ofworkes,or faith, or good vfe of freewill ? Obieît. But Tome of there fell vnder prefcience. ReJJs. T And why may wee not fo elude the Apoffles argument in cafe of Jacob? There allo had prefcience place. 2 Pre - fcience is Gods praSticke knowledge, and prefuppofeth ordinance, the of his will, as being in nature before ir, according to our manner of apprehending. Things are not becaufe forefeene ; but are forefeene becaufe they (hall be. 3 From ordinance, not from prefcience iffues exiflence of all things, that defense the name of things, ha- uing any folid entitle : good things efpecially, and more efpecially things morally good, moil gratuitous, which fit vs to the iüperexcedent end : fo that to afcribe caufalitie of the ordinance to the forefight of faith, faná itie, good vfe of free -will, is vtterly to inuert right order; when from this ordinance as the caufe, i(fues faith, charitie, o- ther
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