(8)  St.  AMBROSE,  a  latin  Father,  was  alfo  a  ftre-
tuous  defender  cf  the  fecond  gofpel-axiom,  which
tfands  or  falls  \\ith  the  doftrine  of  FREE-WILL.  Take
two  proofs  of  it.  "  Ideo  omnibus  opera  fanitatis
"  detulit,  ut  quicunque  periret  morris  fu«e  caufas
"  SIBI  adfcribat  ;  qui  curari  NOLUIT  cum  remedium
*'•  haberet  quo  POSSET  avadere."  Amb.  Lib.  2.  de
Cain  et  Abel.  cap.  13 — That  is  :  God  ajfords  to  all
the  means  cf  recovery ',  that  whoever  perijhes  may  impute
his  cnvn  deflrufticn  to  HIMSELF:  for  as  much  as  he
WOULD  NOT  be  cured  when  HE  HAD  A  REMEDY  whereby
he  MIGHT  HAVE  ESCAPED. — Again,  commenting
upon  theie  words  of  Chriit,  It  is  not  mine  to  give,  &c,
he  fays:  "  Non  eft  mcum  qui  jufitiam  fervo,  non

11   gratiam.
"  heard  it  faid  to    Urn  with  tie  diffiphs,    Ycu  fhall    fit  upon  twelve

"  thrones;  but    AT    LAST    be  btcainf.     a   child  cf  it!/.'"     And  St.
.Ambrofe,  upon  Rom.  ix.  13,  has  thefe  remarkable  words:  "  Non
•'  Qft  perfonarum  ;:ccepto  in  prcefcientia  Dei,  &c."  That  is,
'  Ihci-e  is  no  rejpect  of  pofons  in  God^s  foreknowledge  :  For  prejdencc
*  is  that  ivbcrtby  be  knoivs  ajj'urcdly  bciv  the  ivill  of  every  man  ivill
c  be,  in  tvbich  he  will  continue)  end  by  icbich  bejhall  be  damn'd  c/r
1  crovcred,  &C.  They  icbo,  as  Cod  knows,  iinll  ferfcvere  in  goodncfs,
c  arc  frequently  bad  before  :  and  they  ivboy  as  be  knows,  a/Jo  ivill  be
'  found  tfil  at  laji,  are  jcmetimcs  gcod  before,  &c.  For  both  Saul  and.
f  Judas  ivtre  cnce  good.'"  —  Hence  it  is,  that  he  fays,  in  another,

place,     "  bwetitxes  ilcy  are  at  Jirji  good,  tvbo  afterwards  become    and.
