A17384:2684
A commentary
A commentary: or, sermons upon the second chapter of the first epistle of Saint Peter wherein method, sense, doctrine, and use, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of divinity largely discussed. By Nicholas Byfield, late preacher of God's Word at Isle-worth in Middlesex.A commentary: or, sermons vpon the second chapter of the first epistle of Saint Peter vvherein method, sense, doctrine, and vse, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of diuinity largely discussed. By Nicholas Byfield, late preacher of God's Word at Isle-worth in Middlesex.
London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623
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The essential will of God is taken sometimes for the faculty of willing; sometimes, for the act of willing; sometimes, for the thing willed; and sometimes, for the sign by which that will is declared, as, his Word is his will. So here, by his essential will, God wills both good and evil. Good ⟨p. 632⟩is the object of God's will properly, and of it self: Evil is the object of the will of God, but only under some respect of good. Evil is either of punishment, or of sin. Evil of punishment GOD wills, and is the Author of, Psalm 115.3. as the just Judge of the world: and punishment of it self is a good thing, as it is a work of justice. Evil of sin God only wills to permit, Acts 14.16. but it is not God's willing of evil, is here meant.
The essentiall will of God is taken sometimes for the faculty of willing; sometimes, for the act of willing; sometimes, for the thing willed; and sometimes, for the signe by which that will is declared, as, his Word is his will. So heer, by his essentiall will, God wils both good and euill. Good ⟨p. 632⟩is the obiect of God's will properly, and of it self: Euill is the obiect of the will of God, but onely vnder some respect of good. Euill is either of pu•nishment, or of sinne. Euill of punishment GOD wils, and is the Author of, Psalm 115.3. as the iust Iudge of the world: and punishment of it self is a good thing, as it is a work of iustice. Euill of sinne God onely wils to permit, Acts 14.16. but it is not God's willing of euill, is heer meant.