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A96830	Arcana dogmatum anti-remonstrantium. Or the Calvinists cabinet unlock'd. In an apology for Tilenus, against a pretended vindication of the synod of Dort. At the provocation of Master R. Baxter, held forth in the preface to his Grotian religion. Together, with a few soft drops let fall upon the papers of Master Hickman.	Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.	1659 (1659)	Wing W3336; Thomason E1854_2; ESTC R204117	284,533	643

with a distinction betwixt Reprobation and Praedamnation or Predestination to damnation For they say it is one thing to Predestinate and create to damnation another thing to Praedestinate and create to destruction Damnation being the sentence of a Judge must be past in consideration of sin but Destruction may be the Act of a Soveraign and so inflicted by Right of Dominion as was shewed above To this purpose those Deputies Ibid. pag. 35. m. De Causa Reprobationis do conclude Causam adaequatam cur Deus aliquos non eligendo Praeterierit esse solum divinae voluntatis beneplacitum That the Adaequate cause why God doth passe-by some is the sole beneplaciture of his Divine will Causam verò cur eosdem damnare decreverit esse non tantum actualem oblatae gratiae divinae rejectionem sed etiam alia omnia peccata tam Originalia quam actualia But the cause why he decreed to condemn them is not onely the rejection of the divine grace but also all other sinnes as well the Originall as Actuall Besides the Synod in those their Decrees where they thought it most plausible to fix Predestination upon the fall of Adam they confesse God did not reprobate the most part of the world without all respect of sin because they suppose all mankind infected with that corruption and stain of Originall sin in and with Adam and God cannot but behold it because nothing is concealed from his eye but they never confesse that God had respect to sin as the impulsive or Meritorious cause for which he did reprobate and ordain any to the torments of hell For they say if God had been moved by sin to passe the Act of Reprobation He had reprobated All without exception because All had sinned in Adam Again when they say God did not do this without respect of ANY sinne they confesse it may be granted that he had some respect to some kind of sin to that of Adam committed more then five thousand years agoe without the consent or knowledge of those who are reprobated and to that Originall sin that doth follow from that first sin by unavoidable necessity but they do not say he had respect to any Personall sin or sins committed freely and with a deliberate will of those who are reprobated I say according to their Doctrine God had no respect to any such personall sins Infidelity and Impenitency unlesse it were for the introduction of them by an efficacious permission as means connected with the end in the same Decree for the infrustrable execution of it And therefore the Deputies forementioned Vbi supra do reject it as an Errour in those that hold Causam cur Deus aliquos rejecerit esse infidelitatem impoenitentiam praevisam That impenitencie and unbelief are the cause why God rejects men And the very Decrees of the Synod affirm as much For Cap. 1. Reject 8. they Reject it as an Errour in those who teach that God out of his mere just will hath not decreed to leave any man in the fall of Adam and common state of sin and damnation But suppose the Synod did grant as their very nice and wary distinction absque omni ullius Peccati respectu makes it more than Probable they did not that God in mans Reprobation had some respect to his Actuall Personall sin yet if that sin be such as those Reprobates could not possibly avoid the whole matter will be reduced at last to the respect of that onely sinne of Adam And thus the Synod hath determined Cap. 3 4. Art 3. That All men are conceived in sin and born the children of wrath untoward to all good tending to salvation forward to evil dead in sins slaves to sin and neither Will nor Can without the Grace of the Holy Ghost regenerating them set straight their own crooked nature no nor so much as dispose themselves to the amending of it So that if the Synod had granted a respect of personall sins in the Reprobation of men yet they had understood no other sins than such as had been unavoidable to those Reprobates For they say those Reprobates want the Grace of Gods regenerating Spirit that they may avoid sin and they say also God hath Decreed not to give it them whence it follows that they cannot possibly avoid those sins but through the strength of that first sin and corruption which they lie under when they are commanded by the word of the Gospel to repent and believe will they nill they they shall fall into those foul sins of Infidelity disobedience impenitency and the like as necessarily as a mill-stone falls downward by its own weight for which inevitable sins notwithstanding they should be said to be praeordained to the eternall and horrible torments of hell And then if God ordained the sin of Adam and made that necessary and unavoidable too as Danaeus † Ada●um Dei consilio ordinatione necessariò lapsum esse and Piscator and others do positively averre and the Synod hath no where rejected it that I can remember the Reprobation of the most part of the world will be reduced undeniably to the mere will of God * Deum Adamo legem dedisse ut eam transgrederetur c. Sententia Perkinsii nostrorumque Theologorum haec est lapsum illum evenisse Dei voluntate transeunte in rem permissam h. e. Deum voluisse ut Adamus Laberetur D. Twiss in vind Grat. L. 2. p. 1. Sect. 2. c. 12. vigr 3. p. 142. col 2. what ever publick Profession they have made to detest it A fourth Doctrine which the Synod doth purposely disown and publickly professe to detest is That Reprobation is the cause of Infidelity and Impiety in the same manner as Election is the fountain and cause of Faith and Piety That sin follows the Decree of Reprobation by an unavoidable necessity is the expresse affirmation not onely of Piscator Zanchy c. But of many Synodists also Reprobationem tria consequuntur privatio gratiae peccata poenae peccatorum saith Gomarus Disp de Praedest Resp Otten There are three things which follow Reprobation the deniall of Grace Sinne and the Punishment of Sin And that they do follow it as the fruits of it is the affirmation of Festus Hommius † Thesaur Catech. pag. 216. Fructus Reprobationis sunt desertio vel privatio gratiae Dei mediorum induratio c. The fruits of Reprobation are desertion or the deprivation of Gods grace and means sufficient and necessary induration c. And the Divines of Wedderau do confesse that a necessity of sin doth follow from the Decree of Reprobation De 3 4. Art in Corol. p. 134. par 2 And this is the Doctrine of the whole Synod in their Canons for they say man cannot but sin without Gods regenerating Grace which he hath Decreed to deny or deprive them of as was shewed above Even Master Baxter himself doth acknowledge and professe that