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BY these things whereof we have now spoken, it ¹may easily appear, how God maketh them to go to their own place 1, whom he created to that end that he might be glorified in their just condemnation. For as Christ the second heavenly ⟨p. 36⟩Adam, is the foundation, and very substance, and effect, of the elects salvation: so also the first earthly Adam, because he fell, is the first author of the hate, and so consequently of the damnation of the reprobate 2. For when God, moved with those causes which he only knoweth, had determined to create them to this end, to show forth in them his just wrath, and power 3, likewise he did orderly dispose the causes, & means, whereby it might come to pass, that the whole cause of their damnation, might be of themselves, as hath been declared before in the third Chap. When man then was fallen willingly into that miserable estate whereof we have spoken in the ⟨p. 37⟩chap. before: God who hateth justly the reprobate, because they are corrupt: in ²part of them he doth execute his just wrath so soon as they are borne 4: and towards the rest that be of age, whom he reserveth to a more sharp ³judgement, he observeth two ways clean contrary one to the other. For as concerning some he showeth them not so much favour, as once to hear of Jesus Christ, in whom only is salvation 5, but suffereth them to walk in their own ways 6, and run head long to their perdition.

BY these things whereof we haue now spoken, it ¹may easily appeare, hovv God maketh them to goe to their owne place 1, whom he created to that end that hee might bee glorified in their iust condemnation. For as Christ the second heauenly ⟨p. 36⟩Adam, is the foundation, and very substance, and effect, of the elects saluation: so also the first earthly Adam, because hee fell, is the first author of the hate, and so consequently of the damnation of the reprobate 2. For when God, mooued vvith those causes which he only knoweth, had determined to create them to this end, to shew forth in them his iust wrath, and power 3, likewise he did orderly dispose the causes, & meanes, whereby it might come to passe, that the whole cause of their damnation, might be of themselues, as hath been declared before in the third Chap. When man then was fallen willingly into that miserable estate wherof wee haue spoken in the