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A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein…
A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdays lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine William Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabetical tables ...A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdayes lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine Wiliam Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabeticall tables ...
London: printed by A.M. for Joshua Kirton, 1655
Chapter 10 › Section 17: §. 17. Of Gods desiring that wherein he hath pleasure.
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.
Answ. A three •old distinction on is in this case to be observed.
1. Betwixt Gods permitting will and desire: he may in his unsearchable wisdom permit that which he desireth not: much less delighteth in. 2. Betwixt the action whereby a sin is committed: and the anomy, or pravity wherein the sin consisteth. 3. Betwixt his over-ruling providence, whereby he brings good out of evil, and his approving that which is evil.
1. Betwixt Gods permitting will and desire: he may in his unsearchable wisdome permit that which he desireth not: much lesse delighteth in. 2. Betwixt the action whereby a sin is committed: and the anomy, or pravity wherein the sin consisteth. 3. Betwixt his over-ruling providence, whereby he brings good out of evill, and his approvîng that which is evill.
There is nothing out of God, to move him to desire this or that. He is wholly moved by himself, by his own will, (which is the rule and ground of all goodness) to desire what he doth.1
There is nothing out of God, to move him to desire this or that. He is wholly moved by himself, by his own will, (which is the rule and ground of all goodnesse) to desire what he doth.1
- 1Observe what is Gods desire.