An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 7. They that say, That God is the Cause indeed of our Sin, but is no Sinner himself, because he is under no Law, say nothing in the latter but what all grant, and nothing in the former but what ⟨p. 82⟩[…] ⟨p. 83⟩[…] ⟨p. 84⟩God's Church doth commonly abhor, excepting some few singular presumers.

§. 7. They that say, That God is the Cause indeed of our Sin, but is no Sinner himself, because he is under no Law, say nothing in the latter but what all grant, and nothing in the former but what ⟨p. 82⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 83⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 84⟩God's Church doth commonly abhorr, excepting some few singular presumers.

§. 8. They that hold, That God doth by immediate physical efficient predetermining Premotion principally and unresistibly cause every sinful act, with all its modes and circumstances, do certainly deny all certainty of Faith, and so subvert all Christianity: For the formal Object of all Divine Faith, is God's Veracity, (that God cannot lye) if God could lye, our Belief could have no certainty: Now God speaketh to us, but by inspired men, and not by an essential voice of his own: And if God cause, as aforesaid, all the Lies that ever were spoken by Men or Devils in the World, then no man can be sure that he doth not so by Prophets and Apostles, or that ever they say true: And God's Veracity then is gone.