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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
A post-script to the late letter of the reconcilableness of God's prescience, &c. by John Howe ...A post-script to the late letter of the reconcileableness of God's prescience, &c. by John Howe ...
London: printed for Brabazon Aylmer, 1677
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.
5. That this active Providence of God about all the actions of men consists not merely in giving them the natural powers, whereby they can work of themselves, but in a real influence upon those powers.
5. That this active Providence of God about all the actiens of men consists not meerly in giving them the natural powers, whereby they can work of themselves, but in a real influence upon those powers.
6. That this influence is in reference to holy and spiritual actions (whereto since the Apostasy, the nature of Man is become viciously dis-inclined) necessary to be efficaciously determinative; such as shall overcome that dis-inclination, and reduce those powers into act.
6. That this influence is in reference to holy and spiritual actions (whereto since the Apostacie, the nature of Man is become viciously dis-inclined) necessary to be efficaciously determinative; such as shall overcome that dis-inclination, and reduce those powers into act.
7. That the Ordinary, appointed way for the communication of this determinative influence, is by our intervening consideration of the inducements which God represents to us in his Word, viz. the Precepts, Promises, and Comminations, which are the moral instruments of his Government. No doubt but he may (as is intimated in the Letter, p. 141.) extraordinarily act Men, in some rarer cases, by inward impulse, without the help of such external means, (as he did Prophets or inspired persons) And when he hath done so, we were not to think he treated them unagreeably to their natures, Or so as their natures could not, without violence, admit. But it hath been the care and designment of ⟨p. 41⟩the Divine Wisdom, so to order the way of dispensation towards the several sorts of Creatures, as not only not, ordinarily, to impose upon them, what they could not conveniently be patient of, but so as that their powers and faculties might be put upon the exercises whereof they were capable, and to provide that neither their passive capacity should be overcharged, nor their active be unemployed.