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An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgess ...An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by A.M. for Abel Roper, 1661
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON THE First Chapter of… › Sermon 35
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Again in the second place, There are those that do with open mouth cry 1down the Calvinists as blasphemous against Gods mercy, and making God to be more unmerciful and cruel, then any Tyrant that ever lived: Because (say they) such do hold, God did by absolute, and irrespective fatal Decrees, appoint the greater part of mankind to sin, and then for their sin to damn them. As Tiberius, desirous to put a vestal Virgin to death, caused her violently to be deflowered, and then because she was deflowered, he put her to death. But
Again in the second place, There are those that do with open mouth cry 1down the Calvinists as blasphemous against Gods mercy, and making God to be more unmercifull and cruel, then any Tyrant that ever lived: Because (say they) such do hold, God did by absolute, and irrespective fatal Decrees, appoint the greater part of mankind to sinne, and then for their sinne to damne them. As Tiberius, desiroes to put a vestal Virgin to death, caused her violently to be defloured, and then because she was defloured, he put her to death. But
- 1Of the Calvinists Doctrine concerning Gods absolute Decrees, and how they stand with the mercy of God.
First, Here is a false and an odious representation of the Calvinists Doctrine; and if their opinion, as they truly state it out of the Scripture, be thought to be against the nature of Gods mercy, it's because they do not consider Gods supreme dominion, his Justice and Holiness, as well as his Mercy. But that the Calvinists do not any ways diminish the gracious and merciful Nature of God, by their opinions in the Doctrine of Election, efficacious Conversion, &c. will easily appear to those that are candid and ingenuous. I suppose Election to be an Act of mercy, relating to our misery in Adam's fall, though the learned Doctor Twiss disputeth much against it, Lib. 1. contra Armin. digr. 9. For