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"For the former of these, it is sufficiently known what contests
there were, and at length how profest the divisions betwixt the
Remonstrants and Contra-Remonstrants; and it is confessed that he
maintained (all his time) the Remonstrants party, vindicating it
from all charge, whether of Pelagianism or Semi-Pelagianism, which
was by the opposers objected to it, and pressing the favourers of
the doctrine of Irrespective Decrees with the odious consequences
of making God the _author and favourer of sin_, and frequently
expressing his sense of the evil influences that some of those
doctrines were experimented to have on men's lives. And by these
means it is not strange that he should fall under great displeasure
from those who, having espoused the opinion of Irrespective
Decrees, did not only publish it as the THE TRUTH and TRUTH OF GOD,
but farther asserted the questioning of it to be injurious to God's
free grace and his Eternal Election, and consequently retained no
ordinary patience for or charity to opposers.
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