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Note XIX.
hac cum diabolo damnationem. Nullus relictus est medius
locus, ubi ponere queas infantes. De vivis et mortuis
judicabitur : alii erunt ad dextram, alii ad sinistram : non
novi aliud. Qui inducis medium, recede de medio, sed
noli in sinistram. Si ergo dextra erit, et sinistra, et
nullum medium locum in Evangelio novimus; ecce in
dextra regnum coelorum est, Perdpite, inquit, regnum.
Qui ibi non est in sinistra est. Quid erit in sinistra ? Itv
in ignem ceternum. In dextra ad regnum, utique aeternum
; in sinistra in ignem seternum. Qui non in dextra,
procul dubio in sinistra : ergo qui non in regno, procul
dubio in igne asterno. Certe habere potest vitam seternam
qui non baptizatur ? Non est in dextra, id est, non erit
in regno. Vitam aeternam computas ignem sempiternum ?
Et de ipsa vita sterna audi expressius, quia nihil aliud est
regnum quam vita seterna. Prius regnum nominavit, sed
in dextris ; ignem seternum in sinistris. Extrema autem
sententia, ut doceret quid sit regnum, et quid sit ignis
sempiternus Tune, inquit, abibunt isti in ambustionem
ceternam ; I just autem in vitam ceternam.
Ecce exposuit tibi quid sit regnum, et quid sit ignis
ut quando confitearis parvulum non futurum in
aeternus ;
regno, fatearis futurum in igne asterno. Serm. 294,
c. iii.
NOTE XIX. p. 131.
HOOKER states S. Augustine s doctrine of predestination as
the doctrine that the whole body of mankind in the view
of Grod s eternal knowledge lay universally polluted with
sin, worthy of condemnation and death ; that over the mass
of corruption there passed two acts of the will of Grod, an
act of favour, liberality, and grace, choosing part to be
made partakers of everlasting glory; and an act of justice,
forsaking the rest and adjudging them to endless perdition;
these vessels of wrath, those of mercy ; which mercy is to
Grod s elect so peculiar, and to them and none else (for
their number is definitely known, and can neither be in
creased nor diminished), to them it allotteth immortality
and all things thereunto appertaining ; them it predes-