An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 10. They that say, that if we make not God the Predeterminer to every act in specie morally, and in every comparative respect and mode, we shall make Man a God, by making him a Causa prima, do thereby as much conclude God to be the first and principal predetermining efficient Cause of every wicked Habit (as of Malignity, or Hatred of God, &c.) because a Habit hath as much Entity as an Act: Therefore if it deify Man, to make him the first Cause, e. g. of a Lye or Murder, in specie, then so it will do to make him the first Cause of the Habit.

§. 10. They that say, that if we make not God the Predeterminer to every act in specie morali, and in every comparative respect and mode, we shall make Man a God, by making him a Causa prima, do thereby as much conclude God to be the first and principal predetermining efficient Cause of every wicked Habit (as of Malignity, or Hatred of God, &c.) because a Habit hath as much Entity as an Act: Therefore if it deifie Man, to make him the first Cause, e. g. of a Lye or Murder, in specie, then so it will do to make him the first Cause of the Habit.

§. 11. If it be as impossible for Man to do any thing but what he doth, or not to do all that he doth without God's foresaid predetermining Premotion, as it is to be Gods, or to overcome God, or make a World, then if Men are counted Sinners, and condemned, it is for not doing such impossibilities, for not doing what God alone can do, or for not overcoming Almighty premoving Power.

§. 12. •t cannot rationally be expected, that they that believe that God is the chief Cause and Willer of all Sin, should think it very bad, or themselves bad for it; or that when God hath unresistibly made all men to sin, he yet hateth it, and sent his Son into the World to testify his Hatred by dying for it; and that he is serious in