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A discourse of the saving grace of God
A discourse of the saving grace of God by ... David Clarkson ...
London: printed by J. Astwood for Tho. Parkhurst, 1688
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
It seems to subject God, and make him an Underling to Mans Will; and that in respect of his Will, his Word, his Grace, his Design. Some of these are apparent by what is already said: Let me only insist on one particular. It makes God dependant on the Will of Man, even for his Glory; where it is most intolerable for th• Majesty of Heaven to be dependant, and most inconsistent with his Infinite Perfection and Happiness. The Lord in all the Operations of his Grace, leaves the Will indifferent either to comply or resist. This leaves it to the Determination ⟨p. 110⟩and Arbitrement of Mans Will, whether God shall have the Glory of that, by which he designs to make himself most glorious. It must be in the Power of Mans Will to defeat God there, where he intends most of all to glorify himself; to spoil and deface the glory of his Grace and Love, where the Riches thereof are most displayed: And this in the greatest and most signal Instances of it, and where each Person in the Godhead are most eminently concerned.
It seems to subject God, and make him an Underling to Mans Will; and that in respect of his Will, his Word, his Grace, his Design. Some of these are apparent by what is already said: Let me only insist on one particular. It makes God dependant on the Will of Man, even for his Glory; where it is most intolerable for th• Majesty of Heaven to be dependant, and most inconsistent with his Infinite Perfection and Happiness. The Lord in all the Operations of his Grace, leaves the Will indifferent either to comply or resist. This leaves it to the Determination ⟨p. 110⟩and Arbitrement of Mans Will, whether God shall have the Glory of that, by which he designs to make himself most glorious. It must be in the Power of Mans Will to defeat God there, where he intends most of all to glorifie himself; to spoil and deface the glory of his Grace and Love, where the Riches thereof are most displayed: And this in the greatest and most signal Instances of it, and where each Person in the Godhead are most eminently concerned.