The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God…

Mr. Shepherd hath affirmed it, and therefore preacheth Contentation, &c. as before. This I conceive is a truth, That sinking discouragements under such thoughts, since God hath sent a Saviour, and manifests what his will is, by calling, offering, commanding, promising, threatening, sealing, as before I have instanced, in this respect they may be said to be a resistance of his Will: but this will not help Mr. Shepherd, this overthrows his affirmation.

Mr. Shepherd hath affirmed it, and therefore preacheth Contentation, &c. as before. This I conceive is a truth, That sinking discouragements under such thoughts, since God hath sent a Saviour, and manifests what his will is, by calling, offering, commanding, promising, threatning, sealing, as before I have instanced, in this respect they may be said to be a resistance of his Will: but this will not help Mr. Shepherd, this overthrows his affirmation.

The question then is, What Will doth Mr. Shepherd here mean? The Learned have distinguished of the Will of God (not as if God had more wills then one, as some would fasten upon us) that is, either the voluntas, signi vel beneplaciti, which Strangius, following Channier, had rather call voluntas, [Greek or Hebrew], & [Greek or Hebrew]; this distinction only hath place here for his Antecedent and Consequent; Absolute and Conditionate will, be they true or false, have no room here.

The question then is, What Will doth Mr. Shepherd here mean? The Learned have distinguished of the Will of God (not as if God had more wills then one, as some would fasten upon us) that is, either the voluntas, signi vel beneplaciti, which Strangius, following Channier, had rather call voluntas, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, & 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; this distinction only hath place here for his Antecedent and Consequent; Absolute and Conditionate will, be they true or false, have no room here.