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They will alfo tell you, That God loves all<br />

Men And you think they mean, that God woul4<br />

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have all Men to be faved •, but they aic of another<br />

mind, for their Faith is, That God hath decreed<br />

the Deftrudion and Eternal Damnation of moft<br />

Men, without any Remedy : and God's Love to<br />

all Men, extends no further than the Death oi<br />

Chrift for all Men, which is tobefiow a few Ternporal<br />

Blcffingsupon them: and peihjps too, U<br />

you found them to the Bottom, all thefe good<br />

Things arc but to do them a Mifchief withal<br />

even to aggravate their Condemnation. So thaJ<br />

when all things are put together, it is but a vcr)<br />

d<strong>im</strong>inutive Degree of Love which God bears to al<br />

IVIcn by their Account.<br />

Again they will tell you ftifly, That they hol(<br />

perfonal and abfolute Reprobation, tho the<br />

hold perfonal and abfolute Elc^ion. But thei<br />

ask them what becomes of the Reft? Why, no<br />

reprobated > no, by no means, this is enough t<<br />

fright People ; But what then? Why, they ar<br />

left •, for thefe are T. J. his own words, iWher<br />

there are any chofen, fome muft needs be refufed t<br />

leff]. But now what become of thefe Leaving<br />

and Rcfufe of the People ? Why the Author (<br />

the aforenamed Book refolveth this Doubt, Ta^<br />

3 and 4. Ke is there declaring what God decree<br />

before he made the World ^ and an)ong(l the rel<br />

this is one thing (as he faith) that was then di<br />

creed of God, namely, '^ That to make knovi<br />

« the Power pf his Wrath, and his juft Difple<br />

^^ fure againft Sin, he would [leavej the [rcftj<br />

*' that State of Perdition they would bring ther<br />

^^ felvcs into : That of thcfc VcfTds of Wra<br />

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