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merit and desert we are not, of our own salvation. In the
children of perdition we must always remember that of the
Prophet, "Thy destruction, Israel is of thyself;" lest
we teach men blasphemously to cast the blame of all their
misery upon (rod. Again, lest we take to ourselves the
glory of that happiness, which, if He did not freely and
voluntarily bestow, we should never be made partakers
thereof, it must ever, in the election of saints, be remem
bered, that to choose is an act of (rod s good pleasure, which
presupposeth in us sufficient cause to avert, but none to
deserve it. For this cause, whereas S. Augustine had some
time, been of opinion that (rod chose Jacob and hated
Esau, the one in regard of belief, the other of infidelity,
which was foreseen, his mind he afterwards delivered thus :
" Jacob
/ have loved ; behold what (rod doth freely be
stow. 7 have hated Esau ; behold what man doth justly
deserve." p. 737.
There is some departure here from the rigour of the
real Augustinian language, though no positive inconsis
tency with the Augustinian doctrine. The modification is
given by suppression ; We have seen, he says, that the
whole cause why such are excluded from life resteth alto
gether in themselves. S. Augustine would say this, but
he would explain at the same time that this cause in man
himself was not foreseen personal sin, but original sin.
Hooker suppresses this interpretation, and leaves men s
actual foreseen sins as the cause, according to the natural
meaning of his phrase, of their exclusion from the decree
of predestination to life.
A third statement of the doctrine of predestination re
verts to a stricter line. It followeth, therefore 1 . That
Grod hath predestinated certain men, not all men ; 2. That
the cause moving Him hereunto was not the foresight of
any virtue in us at all; 3. That to Him the number of
His elect is definitely known ; 4. That it cannot be but
their sins must condemn them to whom the purpose of His
saving mercy doth not extend;
5. That to God s fore
6. That
known elect final continuance in grace is given ;
inward grace whereby to be saved is deservedly not given
unto all men ; 7. That no man cometh unto Christ, whom