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A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…
A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the several dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edward Reynolds, late preacher to the honourable society of Lincoln's Inn: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the severall dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edvvard Reynoldes, late preacher to the honorable society of Lincoln's Inne: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.
London: printed by R. Hearne and John Norton for Robert Bostock, 1640
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For resolution of this, we must first consider, that God doth not love those Evils which he thus willeth, as formally, and precisely considered in themselves. And next we will observe how ⟨p. 114⟩far the Will of God is to be the rule of our will; whence will arise the clear apprehension of that truth which is now set down, that the unalterable Object of mans Hatred is all manner of Evil, not only that of deformity and sin, but that also of destruction and misery.
For resolution of this, wee must first consider, that God doth not love those Evils which hee thus willeth, as formally, and precisely considered in themselves. And next wee will observe how ⟨p. 114⟩farre the Will of God is to bee the rule of our will; whence will arise the cleare apprehension of that truth which is now set downe, that the unalterable Object of mans Hatred is all manner of Evill, not onely that of deformity and sinne, but that also of destruction and misery.
First then for the Will of God, we may boldly say what himself hath sworn, that he will not the death or destruction of a sinner: and by consequence neither any other evil of his Creature, as being a thing infinitely remote from his mercy; he is not delighted in the ruin, neither doth he find pleasure or harmony in the groans of any thing which himself created: But he is said to will those Evils as good and just, for the manifestation of his glorious Power over all the Creatures, and of his glorious Justice on those, who are voluntarily fallen from him. But now because it is left only to the Wisdom of God himself to know and ordain the best means for glorifying of himself in and by his creatures, we are not here hence to assume any warrant for willing evil unto our selves or others, but then only when the honour of the Creator is therein advanced. And so the Apostle did conditionally wish evil unto himself, if thereby the glory of Gods mercy towards his Country-men the Jews might be the more advanced.