The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…

Man may say, I can so bind them up, that (if I please) God shall have never an Elect Vessel to fill with Mercy, nor Christ any where to lay his Merits ⟨p. 72⟩among all the sons of men. Should he yet ask, Who hath known the mind of the Lord, or been his Counsellor? Man may answer, My Free Will was consulted with from time to time, even to the last gasp of Perseverance, before the Decree of Election was concluded in Heaven. Should he ask on, Who made thee to differ from another? The Believer may answer, Adam did not difference me, for he left me in the common Mass; neither did God difference me, for he gave me only the Common Grace: but I my self have made the difference, by freely embracing the very same Grace which others freely rejected. In a word; should he expostulate with his Church as with Jerusalem, Ezek. 15. 2, 3. What is the vine-tree more than any tree? Will men take a pin of it to hang a vessel thereon? The Church may answer, My own Free Will is such a pin, that my Faith and Perseverance chiefly hang upon it, and my Faith & Perseverance are such pins, that God himself hangs up the eternal Rolls of his Election upon them. Thus and much more may the Will of man by the Remonstrants Principles, sit as a Queen glorifying her self, and opening her mouth in Blasphemies against the Sovereignty of God's Will, and the freeness ⟨p. 73⟩and power of his Grace. But all this while a deaf Ear is turned to the Scriptures, which cry aloud, No flesh must glory in it self; he that glorieth must glory in the Lord; 'tis not of the runner or willer, but of God who showeth mercy; he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardeneth: And if any man reply to this, he must hear his own nullity; Nay but O man who art thou? and God's sovereignty, hath not the potter power over the clay? that so he may fall down astonied at the Glory of God, and cry out, [Greek or Hebrew], Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! Indeed according to the Remonstrants Doctrine (which bottoms God's Election on mans Faith and Perseverance) there is no [Greek or Hebrew] at all in it, all is ultimately resolved into the shallow Will of man; there is no unsearchableness or untraceable difficulty at all in it, all is plain and easy, every jot of it carries a clearness and visible equity.