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2. The final Sin of Reprobates, though it be not properly the Cause of the Decree it self, yet it is conditio in objecto necessaria, making men meet Objects for the Decree to terminate upon. The Vessels of wrath are fitted to destruction. Final Sin as produced in actual Existence fits them for actual destruction; and final Sin, as foreseen in the divine Prescience, fits them for a Decree of destruction. Where final Sin is foreseen, there the Decree of Damnation terminates; and where final Sin is not foreseen, there the Decree of Damnation terminates not. After all thy wickedness, woe, woe unto thee, saith the Lord, Ezek. 16. 23. Hells woes are after final wickedness, and the Decree of Hells woes are after the Prescience of final wickedness. ⟨p. 127⟩In a word; That which causes men to be capable objects for the Decree of Damnation to terminate on, is the final Sin which is in the unrighteous Will of Man; and that which causes the Decree of Damnation to terminate on them, is the Vindictive Justice, which is in the righteous Will of God. In Tophet the Torments are as unquenchable fire. The final sin is as much wood, and that which kindles it is Vindictive Justice breathing out from the righteous Will of God; in all which there is nothing at all but exact Righteousness. God may say to Man, Thy perdition is of thy self, and Man must say to God, Thou art righteous, O Lord in all thy ways.

I will shut up all with an Answer to an Objection. You will yet say, God's Justice is not cleared in this point; for the Decree of Preterition and Permission is merely out of Sovereignty, and upon this Preterition and Permission doth infallibly follow final Sin, and upon final Sin doth infallibly follow eternal Damnation: Wherefore hereby God is made the great Author of the Reprobates Sin and Damnation.