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A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen…A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen…
A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1655
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A SERMON Of Judgement, Preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord… › Part 9
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2. I am sure it is either false, or reconcilable with Gods Holiness, and mans liberty and culpability; so that its a mad thing to deceive your selves with such Philosophical uncertainties, when the Truth which you oppose by it is infallibly certain. That God is not the Author of sin, but man himself, who is justly condemned for it, is undoubtedly true: and would you obscure so clear a Truth, by searching into points beyond humane reach, if not unsound, as you conclude them?
2. I am sure it is either false, or reconcileable with Gods Holiness, and mans liberty and culpability; so that its a mad thing to deceive your selves with such Philosophical uncertainties, when the Truth which you oppose by it is infallibly certain. That God is not the Author of sin, but man himself, who is justly condemned for it, is undoubtedly true: and would you obscure so clear a Truth, by searching into points beyond humane reach, if not unsound, as you conclude them?
The four and twentieth Excuse. But at least, those learned Divines among us that doubt of this, do yet say that the will is necessarily and infallibly Determined by the Practical Understanding, and that is as much unresistibly necessitated by Objects: and therefore ⟨p. 149⟩whatever act was done by my understanding or will, was thus necessitated, and I could not help it. They say, Liberty is but the Acting of the faculty agreeably to its nature: And it was God as Creator that gave Adam his faculties: and God by providential dispose, that presented all Objects to him, by which his understanding, and so his will were unavoidably necessitated.
The four and twentieth Excuse. But at least, those learned Divines among us that doubt of this, do yet say that the will is necessarily and infallibly Determined by the Practical Ʋnderstanding, and that is as much unresistibly necessitated by Objects: and therefore ⟨p. 149⟩