A discourse of the true nature of the Gospel demonstrating that it is no…

I know very well that Arminius boldly affirms all this;^a That the Covenant of Works being broken, the Law was abrogated too, and that God no longer required Obedience from his sinful Creature, till he brought in a new Law, which is the Gospel, commanding Faith and Repentance; and that God accepts this Obedience to the Precepts of this his new Law, instead of perfect Obedience to the old violated Moral Law. But I know too very well, that most prodigious and amazing Absurdities will be the natural Products of ⟨p. 50⟩this monstrous Opinion. It will follow, that the first Sin dethroned God, not only out of Man's Heart, but out of his Seat of Majesty in Heaven too, until to regain his Crown and Dominion, and for the recovery of his lost Sovereign Power, he was forced to condescend to treat with his Rebels upon lower Terms, and to propose a new and milder Law, accommodated to the weaker Circumstances of their State. Thus God loseth his Sovereignty by the Disobedience of his Creature, and his Laws signified so little, that they were all repealed and disannulled, when Man would observe them no longer. And who can once think that the Great God should lose his Power to command, when his Creatures refused any more to obey him, and that Man by becoming a Rebel, should cease to be a Subject; and that therefore a new Law, giving new Precepts, and proposing other more moderate Conditions, was absolutely needful to adjust the desperate Affair, and to set all things right again?

I know very well that Arminius boldly affirms all this;^a That the Covenant of Works being broken, the Law was abrogated too, and that God no longer required Obedience from his sinful Creature, till he brought in a new Law, which is the Gospel, commanding Faith and Repentance; and that God accepts this Obedience to the Precepts of this his new Law, instead of perfect Obedience to the old violated Moral Law. But I know too very well, that most prodigious and amazing Absurdities will be the natural Products of ⟨p. 50⟩this monstrous Opinion. It will follow, that the first Sin dethron'd God, not only out of Man's Heart, but out of his Seat of Majesty in Heaven too, until to regain his Crown and Dominion, and for the recovery of his lost Sovereign Power, he was forced to condescend to treat with his Rebels upon lower Terms, and to propose a new and milder Law, accommodated to the weaker Circumstances of their State. Thus God loseth his Soveraignty by the Disobedience of his Creature, and his Laws signified so little, that they were all repeal'd and disannull'd, when Man would observe them no longer. And who can once think that the Great God should lose his Power to command, when his Creatures refus'd any more to obey him, and that Man by becoming a Rebel, should cease to be a Subject; and that therefore a new Law, giving new Precepts, and proposing other more moderate Conditions, was absolutely needful to adjust the desperate Affair, and to set all things right again?