A post-script to the late letter of the reconcilableness of God's prescience, &cA post-script to the late letter of the reconcileableness of God's prescience, &c

Q. 1.¹ Whether there be any action of Man on earth so good, which hath not some mixture of Sin in it? And if God concur to the substrate matter of it as good, must he not necessarily concur to the substrate matter as sinful? For is not the substrate matter of the act, both as good and sinful the same?

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A. 1.¹ It seems then, that God doth concur to the matter of an action as sinful. Which is honestly acknowledged, since by his Principles, it cannot be denied; ⟨p. 33⟩tho most, of his way, mince the business, and say the concurrence is only to the action which is sinful, not as sinful.

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2. This I am to consider as an argument for God's predeterminative concurrence to wicked actions. And thus it must be conceived. That if God concur by determinative influence to the imperfectly good actions of Faith, Repentance, Love to himself, Prayer: Therefore to the acts of enmity against himself, Cursing, Idolatry, Blasphemy, &c. And is it not a mighty consequence? If to actions that are good quoad substantiam, therefore to such as are in the substance of them evil? We our selves can, in a remoter kind, concur to the actions of others: Because you may afford, your self, your leading concurrence to actions imperfectly ⟨p. 34⟩