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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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Secondly, though the Will of God were in this case known, yet is not our will constrained to a necessary inclination, though it be to an humble submission and patience in bearing that which the Wisdom and purpose of God hath made inevitable; for as the promises and decrees ⟨p. 116⟩of Good things from God do not warrant our slackness in neglecting, or our profaneness in turning from them; so neither doth the certainty and unavoidableness of a future evil (as death intended upon us by God) put any necessity on our nature to deny it self, or to love its own distresses.
Secondly, though the Will of God were in this case knowne, yet is not our will constrained to a necessary inclination, though it bee to an humble submission and patience in bearing that which the Wisedome and purpose of God hath made inevitable; for as the promises and decrees ⟨p. 116⟩of Good things from God doe not warrant our slacknesse in neglecting, or our profanenesse in turning from them; so neither doth the certainty and unavoidablenesse of a future evill (as death intended upon us by God) put any necessity on our nature to deny it selfe, or to love its owne distresses.
Of which that we may be the more sure, we may observe it in him, who as he was wholly like us in nature, and therefore had the same natural inclinations and aversations with us; so was he of the same infinite essence with his Father, and therefore did will the same things with him, yet even in him we may observe (in regard of that, which the Scripture saith, was by the hand and Counsel of God before determined) a seeming Reluctancy and withdrawing from the Divine Decree. He knew it was not his Fathers Will; and yet, Father, if thou be willing, l•t this cup pass from me: he was not ignorant that he was to suffer, and that there was an Oporte•, a necessity upon it, and yet a second and a third time again, Father, if it be possible, let this Cup pass from me. Consider it as the Destruction of his Temple, and Anguish of nature, which he could not (being in all things like unto us) but love; and then Transeat, Let it pass: but consider it as the necessary means of procuring precious blessings for mankind, and of fulfilling the eternal Decree of his Fathers Love, and then, Not as I, but as thou wilt.