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§. 10. VII. God's will as it is himself hath no Cause but is the Cause of every Creature: And to ask a Cause of the first Cause is absurd.

§. 11. VIII. All the effects of God's Will ad extra, have their divers natures, orders and seasons, priority, posteriority or simultaneity, which we may soberly enquire after.

§. 11. VIII. All the effects of God's Will ad extra, have their divers natures, orders and seasons, priority, posteriority or simultaneity, which we may sobe•ly enquire after.

§. 12. IX. God's will, though but one, as related to the objects and effects, may by us be diversly denominated: And so we distinguish of his Creating will, and his Redeeming will, his will to Save, and his will to Damn, his will to save Peter, and his will to save John, and so of all the rest of the Objects. In all which we mean not a Diversity of Essences or Faculties in God, or Acts ex parte agentis, really differing; but only one and the same Will diversly conceived of and denominated by reason of the diversity of objects or effects to which it is ⟨p. 27⟩related, and so by Connotation the Will it self is thus distinguished.

§. 12. IX. God's will, though but one, as related to the objects and effects, may by us be diversly denominated: And so we distinguish of his Creating will, and his Redeeming will, his will to Save, and his will to Damn, his will to save Peter, and his will to save Iohn, and so of all the rest of the Objects. In all which we mean not a Diversity of Essences or Faculties in God, or Acts ex parte agentis, really differing; but only one and the same Will diversly conceived of and denominated by reason of the diversity of objects or effects to which it is