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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.
2. Or if he would manifest himself to the Creatures, he might have formed more excellent Creatures, and more fit to be the Objects of his great and transcendent Love: for he did not act as a natural Agent ad ultimum sui posse, to the utmost of all his Power.
3. Or if the Divine Will would determine it self to give a Being to those very Creatures that are now existent; yet there was no necessity that he should save any of them. He might have annihilated ⟨p. 26⟩them, without any show of Unrighteousness: For who can say unto the King of Kings, What dost thou? Dan. 4. 35. might he not do with his own what he will?
3. Or if the Divine Will would determine it self to give a Being to those very Creatures that are now existent; yet there was no necessity that he should save any of them. He might have annihilated ⟨p. 26⟩them, without any shew of Unrighteousnes: For who can say unto the King of Kings, What dost thou? Dan. 4. 35. might he not do with his own what he will?
4. Or if he would manifest his Love and Goodness in the Salvation of any that he had Created; yet who would not think all the Angels (those sometimes glorious Creatures) more capable of it, than any of the Children of men?