As he that in this instant wil•eth Chastity, may in t•e next instant be predetermined by unresistible Omnipotency to will fornication; or he that Loved God may be predetermined and premoved by ⟨p. 82⟩God to hate him the next moment. But we will not call this irresistible efficiency [coaction,] because it is ad Volendum, and so in ipso act• there is no reluctancy or resistance.
XI. When God hath given man a Power with liberty to will or nill, or not will, to will this or that, and also giveth him all necessary objects and concauses, and also as the first cause of natural and free action giveth him all that Influx which is necessary to an Act as such, yet the moral specification of that Act, to this proposed object rather than that (as to hate God, rather than to hate sin,) or to this Act rather than to that (as to hate God, rather than to Love him, or to speak a lye, rather than the truth) hath so much Entity in it, that it is a blasphemous deifying man to say, that man can do it, without Gods fore-described unresistible predetermining physical premotion.
XII. God made the Law which forbiddeth sin, and God made mans nature Intellectual and free to be ruled by Law; and God made and ordereth all the objects, temptations and concauses; and God by the said efficient, physical premotion causeth irresistibly every act of sin in all its circumstances: (As when David was deliberating, Shall I do this Adultery and Murder or not? God first by omnipotent motion determined his will to it, or else he could not possibly have done it.) And sin in its formale is nothing but the Relation of Disconformity to Gods Law, which can have no cause but that which causeth the subjectum, fundamentum & terminum; nor can it possibly be, but it must exist per nudam resultantiam, hisce positis. And yet though God make the man, the Law, the act, the object, and all that is in the world from whence sin resulteth as a mere relation, we are resolved to say that God is not the Author or Cause of sin.
XIII. Yea, though the Habits of sin are certain Entities, and therefore God must needs be their first cause in their full nature, according to our principles, who account it proper to God to be the first and principal cause of any such entity; yet we are resolved to say, that God is not the Cause or Author at least of sin.
XIV.
As he that in this instant wil•eth Chasti•y, may in t•e next instant be predetermined by unresistible Omnip•tency to will fornication; or he that Loved God may be predetermined and premoved by ⟨p. 82⟩God to hate him the next moment. But we will not call this irresistible efficiency [coaction,] because it is ad Volendum, and so in ipso act• there is no reluctancy or resistance.
XI. When God hath given man a Power with liberty to will or nill, or not will, to will this or that, and also giveth him all necessary objects and concauses, and also as the first cause of natural and free action giveth him all that Influx which is necessary to an Act as such, yet the moral specification of that Act, to this proposed object rather than that (as to hate God, rather than to hate sin,) or to this Act rather than to that (as to hate God, rather than to Love him, or to speak a lye, rather than the truth) hath so much Entity in it, that it is a blasphemous deifying man to say, that man can do it, without Gods fore-described unresistible predetermining physical premotion.
XII. God made the Law which forbiddeth sin, and God made mans nature Intellectual and free to be ruled by Law; and God made and ordereth all the objects, temptations and concauses; and God by the said efficient, physical premotion causeth irresistibly every act of sin in all its circumstances: (As when David was deliberating, Shall I do this Adultery and Murder or not? God first by omnipotent motion determined his will to it, or else he could not possibly have done it.) And sin in its formale is nothing but the Relation of Disconformity to Gods Law, which can have no cause but that which causeth the subjectum, fundamentum & terminum; nor can it possibly be, but it must exist per nudam resultantiam, hisce positis. And yet though God make the man, the Law, the act, the object, and all that is in the world from whence sin resulteth as a meer relation, we are resolved to say that God is not the Author or Cause of sin.
XIII. Yea, though the Habits of sin are certain Entities, and therefore God must needs be their first cause in their full nature, according to our principles, who account it proper to God to be the first and principal cause of any such entity; yet we are resolved to say, that God is not the Cause or Author at least of sin.
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