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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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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.
First then for the Will of God, we may boldly say what himselfe hath sworne, that hee will not the death or destruction of a sinner: and by consequence neither any other evill of his Creature, as being a thing infinitely remote from his mercy; he is not delighted in the ruine, neither doth hee find pleasure or harmony in the groanes of any thing which himselfe created: But hee is said to will those Evills as good and just, for the manifestation of his glorious Power over all the Creatures, and of his glorious Iustice on those, who are voluntarily fallen from him. But now because it is left onely to the Wisedome of God himselfe to know and ordaine the best meanes for glorifying of himselfe in and by his creatures, we are not here hence to assume any warrant for willing evill unto our selves or others, but then onely when the honour of the Creator is therein advanced. And so the Apostle did conditionally wish evill unto himselfe, if thereby the glory of Gods mercy towards his Countrey-men the Iewes might be the more advanced.
Secondly, it is no good Argument, God willeth the inflicting of such an evil, therefore it is unlawful for my will to decline it: for first the Will of God, whereby he determineth to work ⟨p. 115⟩