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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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3. Gods Decrees are acts Immanent in himself and make no change on you, and therefore do not necessitate you to sin, any more then his fore-knowledge doth. For both cause only a necessity of Consequence, which is Logical, as the Divines on both sides do Confess. And therefore this no more caused you to sin, then if there had been no such Degree. And its a doubt whether that Decree be not negative; A willing suspending of the Divine will, as to evil; or at most▪ A purpose to permit it.
The six and twentieth Excuse. If it be no more, yet doth it make my perdition unavoidable; For even Gods foreknowledge doth so; ⟨p. 155⟩For if he foreknow it, all the world cannot hinder it from coming to pass.
Answ. Must God either be Ignorant of what you will do, or else be the cause of it? If you foreknow that the Sun will rise tomorrow, that doth not cause it to rise. If you foreknow that one man will murder another, you are not the cause of it by foreknowing it. So is it here.