The doctrine of the synod of Dort and Arles, reduced to the practise With…

¹Let us see now, what profit ariseth from this doctrine, and how it serveth to the 3. ends and uses hereabove mentioned.

¹LEt us see now, what profitt ariseth from this doctrine, and how it serveth to the 3. ends and uses hereabove mentioned.

1. 1Sect. 1.

First then, if he that is of this opinion will go about to convert an Infidel, the Infidel will tell him that he knoweth not how to love, nor yet to believe that God to be good and just, which only for his own pleasure hath destined the greatest part of mankind to everlasting torments, without the least consideration of any sin, at least only for the sin of one man, who notwithstanding obtained pardon for himself, after he had wilfully committed it. That herein he seeth not the least trace, either of goodness or wisdom, or justice to use them so cruelly, that are destitute of certain graces and benefits, which this God hath never willed to have given them, and which these miserable wretches could ⟨p. 33⟩obtain no other way, and to whom by an irrevocable decree, he hath imposed a necessity as well of sinning without having any power to repent, as of perishing eternally, which are the very words of Zanchy, one of the principal Doctors of that Synod.

First then, if he that is of this opinion will go about to convert an Infidell, the Infidell will tell him that he knoweth not how to love, nor yet to beleeve that God to be good and just, which only for his owne pleasure hath destinyed the greatest part of mankind to everlasting torments, without the least consideration of any sinne, at least only for the sinne of one man, who notwithstanding obteyned pardon for himself, after he had willfully committed it. That herein he seeth not the least trace, either of goodnesse or wisedome, or justice to use them so cruelly, that are destitute of certaine graces and benefites, which this God hath never willed to have given them, and which these miserable wretches could